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ILY, SUPERB. Lilium Superbum. Class 

 6, Hexandria. Order : Monooynia. The 



stem is erect, straight, six feet high, sup- 

 porting a most superb pyramid of light 

 orange-coloured flowers, sometimes to the 

 number of forty. This species is occasionally 

 seen in our gardens, improved by cultivation. 



SPLENDOUR. 



Nor are thy evening splendours, mighty Orb! 



Less beautiful : and oh ! more touching far, 

 And of more power thought, feeling to absorb 



In silent ecstasy, to me they are; 

 When, watchful of thy exit, one pale star 



Shines on the brow of summer's loveliest eve ; 

 And breezes, softer than the soft guitar, 



Whose plaintive notes Castilian maids deceive, 

 Among the foliage sigh, and take of thee their leave. 



Oh! then it is delightful to behold 



Thy calm departure; soothing to survey 

 Through opening clouds, by thee all edged with gold, 



The milder pomp of thy declining sway : 

 How beautiful, on church-tower old and grey, 



Is" shed thy parting smile ; how brightly glow 

 Thy last beams on some tall tree's loftiest spray, 



While silvery mists half veil the trunk below, 

 And hide the rippling stream that scarce is heard to flow ! 



Barton. 



O place and greatness, millions of false eyes 

 Are stuck upon thee ! volumes of report 

 Run with these false and most contrarious guests 

 Upon thy doings ! thousand 'scapes of wit 

 Make thee the father of their idle dream, 

 And rack thee in their fancies. 



Shakspeare 



