208 FLORA'S LEXICON. 



3* ^RUMPET FLOWER., ASH-LEAVED. 

 fa Bignonia Radicans. Class 14, Didynamia. 

 Order: Angiospermia. Separations are 

 eagerly announced by the trumpets of scan- 

 dal and ill-nature, who by their discordant 

 sounds, frequently prevent the possibility of 

 a re-union. 



The gay corollas of this North American plant drop off, leav- 

 ing the pistilum destitute of protection, and hence it is presumed 

 the emblem was devised, for where attachment is so slight, sepa- 

 ration becomes easy. 



SEPARATION. 



Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom ! — 



The spells of the spring-time arouse it no more, 

 The song in the wild-wood — the sheen of the blossom — 



The fresh-swelling fountain — their magic is o'er! 

 When I list to the streams — when I look on the flowers, 



They tell of the Past, with so mournful a tone, 

 That I call up the throngs of my long-vanish'd hours, 



And sigh that their transports are over and gone. 



From the wide-spreading earth — from the limitless heaven, 



There have vanish'd an eloquent glory and gleam; 

 To my veil'd mind no more is the influence given, 



Which coloureth life with the hues of a dream. 

 The bloom-purpled landscape its loveliness keepeth — 



I deem that a light as of old gilds the wave ; — 

 But the eye of my spirit in heaviness sleepeth, 



Or sees but my youth and the visions it gave. 



Clark. 



What! keep a week away? Seven days and nights'? 

 Eight score eight hours'? and lovers' absent hours, 

 More tedious than the dial eight score times? 

 O weary reckoning ! 



Shakspeark. 



