232 FLORA'S LEXICON 



INNIA. Zinnia. Class 19, Svngenesia. 

 Order: Polygamia Superflua. This flower 

 received its singular name from a German 

 botanist, Dr. John G. Zinn. We have many 

 species of this genus in America. The red 

 is found on the banks of the Mississippi ; 

 the yellow is a native of Peru ; the scarlet, 

 purple-flowered and slender-flowered, of Mexico. 



ABSENCE. 



Short absence hurt him more, 

 And made his wound far greater than before; 

 Absence not long enough to root out quite 

 All love, increases love at second sight. 



May. 



I do not doubt his love, but I could wish 

 His presence might confirm it : when I see 

 A fire well fed, shoot up its wanton flame, 

 And dart itself into the face of heaven ; 

 I grant that fire, without a fresh supply, 

 May for a while be still a fire; but yet 

 How doth its lustre languish, and itself 

 Grow dark, if it too long want the embrace 

 Of its loved pyle 1 how straight it buried lies 

 In its own ruins. 



Mead. 



O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, 

 Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; 

 Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall, 

 And leave no memory of what it was ! 

 Repair me with thy presence, Sylvia ; 

 Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain. 



Shakspeare. 



Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; 

 And every little absence is an age. 



Dryden. 



