224 SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS 



ORANGE rLO^\^ERS.-BRiDAL Festivity. 



Bind the white orange flowers in her hair ; 



Soft be their shadow, soft and somewhat pale, 

 For they are omens. Many anxious years 



Are on the wreath that bends the bridal veil. 



The maiden leaves her childhood and her home, 

 All that the past has known of happy hours, 



Perhaps her happiest ones — well may there be 

 A faint, wan color, in those orange flowers. 



For they are pale as hope, and hope is pale 

 With earnest 'watching over future years, 



"With all the promise of their loveliness, 



The bride and morning bathe their wreath in tears. 



L. E. Landon. 



" I clasped the string of costly pearls. 



The gifts of courtship's hours; 

 I placed upon her shining curls 



The wreath of orange floAvers. 

 O'er her sweet face I flung the veil, 



Yet drew it half aside. 

 That thy triumphant gaze might hail 



The beauty of thy bride." 



PHEASANT'S EYE, OR FLOS ADONIS. 



Ay, do not fear 

 Thou'lt be remembered long, 

 The canker-worm of the heart 

 * Is ne'er forgotten. 



Mrs. Hemans. 



COWSLIP.— Attractive Grace. 



I WOULD bring to thee a cowslip, 



My beautiful, my own. 

 Such a fair and modest flower 



Is like to thee alone. L. H. 



