February brought fair days scattered shining celandines like pieces of gold over the garden beds set the stiff upright daffodil buds drooping and was all too soon driven out by the bleakest March that was ever known a fierce detestable month of withering east winds of starved primroses and dauntless thrushes singing to their nests in the shaken laurustinus - Carnival by Compton Mackenzie

So the Daffodil Baby lay down and went to sleep and slept for many days and nights - The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes

This was the case for Michael though he had been silent at the time about the Inquest had been unable to resist the temptation to correct Uncle Moses when the old boy asked Wot did he say was the blooming name of the party he was after Daverill Daffodil - When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan