72 BOTANY. 



XXII. 



Transported o'er the western main, 

 From fair Columbia's fertile plain. 



Sweet evening Primrose, ° say ; 

 ^Vhen day's refulgent hour is fled, 

 And "twilight's fairy robe" is spread, 

 Why dost thou love at eve to shed 



The phosphorescent ray ? 



XXIII. 



"Wliere Avon's waters slowly stream, 

 jVnd through the osier branches gleam, 



To cheer and fertilize ; 

 There — where no fiuious tempests rave, 

 Lofty Butomns ° loves to lave 

 Her stately form, — and o'er the wave 



Her crimson umbels rise. 



