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THE DEW-DROP AND THE ROSE 



A BOSE in tbe moonshine lay quietly sleeping, 

 "Where zephyrs were timidly creeping, creeping ; 

 A dew-drop crept silently into its breast. 

 Without waking the rose from its moonlight rest. 



When morning dawned, the rose was waking. 

 While glimmering leaves were shaking, sliaking; 

 And finding a dew-drop so near to her heart, 

 She prayed he would ne'er from her bosom depart. 

 She folded him close in the warmth of her love. 

 As the wings of the mother fold round a young dove. 



The morning was dawning, the rose was waking, 

 And rustling leaves were shaking, shaking. 



The gleams of the sun came slily glancing 



Where leaves on the branches were dancing, dancing ; 



And on the green moss where the rose had been sleeping, 



The golden glances came peeping, peeping. 



The rose felt a joy in her fragrant breast, _ 



When she saw her loved dew-drop still lying at rest ; 



But while she was watcliing her loved one's eye. 



He dissolved as a dream, and soared up to the sky. 



The sorrowful rose hung her head in weeping. 



While the dew-drop went upward, creeping, creepmg. 



So the morning cf life may have blessings to cheer it, 



And love, like the dew, gem the blossoming heart ; 

 Though the joy of a life may be gatliering near it, 



Tiiat joy, like the dew-drop, soon, soon must depart. 

 But still 'tis for ever a sweet consolation. 



If that whicli we cherish pertains to the sky. 

 For the fond hope is left in our gloomy probation. 



That the dew-drup we cherished ttill sparkles on high. 

 Tliere are gardens above, where the spirits we Icve 



Will be taken like dews from the roses of this ; 

 Where nouglit can destroy, they awake in their joy, 



To dwell peacefully ever in regions of bliss. 



So to heavenly hopes we may gladly be waking. 

 Though the heart, in its sorrow, is breaking, breaking ! 



EDIBLE AND ORNAMENTAL GOURDS. 



OURDS are now grown in collections, and add very much to the Interest 

 of the liitchen garden, while a few of the smaller-growing kinds are in- 

 valuable for decorating trelliies, arbours, summer-houses, etc. The 

 London public have had two very fair examples lately of the attrac- 

 tiveness of gourds as subjects for exhibition. At the Guildhall F.ower Show of the 

 United Horticultural Soci'rty, Mr. Young, gardener to R. Barclay, Esq., West Hill, 

 Highgate, exhibited 1000 varieties, coveiing about 60 feet run of table space, and 

 comprising specimens varying in size from that of a "big drum" to a nutmeg, and 

 of all colours and shapes. At the Autumn Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 1000 varieties were shown by Mr. Blundell, of Burseldown, Southampton, who was 



