FLORA'S LEXICON 



ARCISSUS, FALSE. Narcissus Pseudo. 

 Class 6, Hexandria. Order : Monogynia. 

 The flowers of this plant very often fail. 

 It is a native of our meadows, but is culti- 

 vated with great care in Holland, and ex- 

 ported thence under the name of Phoenix, or 

 Soleil d'or. After tending- the forced plant 



with much care, we are surprised to find that we possess in it 



nothing better than the false narcissus. 



DELUSIVE HOPE. 



As rising on its purple wing 

 The insect queen of eastern spring, 

 O'er emerald meadows of Kashmere, 

 Invites the young pursuer near, 

 And leads him on from flower to flower, 

 A weary chase and wasted hour, 

 Then leaves him, as it soars on high, 

 With panting heart and tearful eye: 

 So beauty lures the full-grown child, 

 With hue as bright and wing as wild j 

 A chase of idle hopes and fears, 

 Begun in folly, closed in tears. 



Byron. 



On life's gay stage, one inch above the grave, 

 The proud run up and down in quest of eyes ; 

 The sensual, in pursuit of something worse ; 

 The grave, of gold ; the politic, of power ; 

 And all, of other butterflies, as vain. 



Young. 



How must a spirit, late escaped from earth, 

 The truth of things new blazing in its eye, 

 Look back, astonish'd, on the ways of men, 

 Whose lives' whole drift is to forget their graves! 



Young. 



