76 FLORA'S LEXICON 



OGWOOD. Cornus Florida. Class 4, 

 Tetrandria. Order: Monogynia. The 

 Dogwood is found in all parts of the United 

 States, south of latitude 43 degrees, and is 

 well known from the large white petaloid 

 involucres, which render it so conspicuous 

 in the spring. It does not usually exceed 

 twenty feet in height, but the wood is hard, compact, and excel- 

 lently adapted for the handles of light tools and similar purposes. 



LOVE UNDIMINISHED BY ADVERSITY. 



There's an hour when the heart, like a bark o'er the waves, 



Seems nearing the port so long anxiously sought, 

 And the tempests of passion lie hush'd in their caves, 



And life's gales from the soul a sweet odour have caught ; 

 But the eye may deceive, and the wish may betray, 



And the port prove a cloud, or a desolate isle ; 

 And the heart and the cheek which were happy to-day, 



May to-morrow have lost both their hope and their smile. 



Oh ! the love I would die for, or live but to prize, 



Is that which through seasons of sorrow hath pass'd ; 

 Like the radiant light of the midsummer skies, 



Shines on through our lives, but grows loveliest at last ; 

 The hearts which are form'd but in sunshine and flowers, 



Enraptured to beat, or united to cling, 

 Know not the bliss shed by Time's truth-testing powers, 



O'er those whose affections have blunted griefs sting. 



The Knickerbocker. 



Love does reign 

 In stoutest minds, and maketh monstrous w r ar: 

 He maketh war, he maketh peace again, 

 And yet his peace is but continual jar: 

 O miserable men that to him subject are. 



Spenser. 



