The speaker picks a daisy while walking down a dirt road and thinks of her true love who had gone away long ago. She considers pulling the daisy's petals to see if he still loves her through the "he loves me, he loves me not" game. However, she realizes she doesn't need the flower to tell her what she already knows - that her love had loved her with a rare and true love, so she continues down the road with the daisy in her hair.