AMER. STAR WORT. 



Michaelmas Daisy. 

 Aster tradescanti. 



Cheerfulness in 

 old age. 



Though time thy bloom is stealing, 

 There 's still beyond his art, 



The wild-flower wreath of feeling, 

 The sunbeam of the heart. . . 



Halleck. 



Virtue gives pleasure an eternal reign. . . . Young. 



Virtue can brook the thoughts of age, 



That lasts the same through every stage. . . Gay. 



What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, 



The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, 



Is virtue's prize Pope. 



ANEMONE. 



Zephyr's Flower. 

 Anemone vernalis. 



Expectation. For him she breathes the silent sigh forlorn, 



Each setting day for him, each rising morn. Darwin. 



He used to come, in happier hours, 

 Upon my gift of token flowers. . . 



. . C. G. 



He comes not sends not faithless one ! 



It is no dream and I am desolate ! . . . . Byron. 



That breathless, agoniz'd suspense 



From whose hot throbs, whose deadly aching 



The heart hath no relief but breaking ! . . 



Moore. 



ARBOR VITJE. 



Thuja. 



for me. With heart never changing, and brow never cold. Moore. 

 I live in pleasure, when 1 live to thee D. 



Unless I look on Sylvia in the day, 

 There is no day for me to look upon. 

 She is my essence : and I leave to be, 

 If I be not by her fair influence 

 Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive. 



Gladly I 

 With thee would live, with thee would die. 



Shaks. 



Horace. , 



Answer. 



Elvira blush'd the warm reply, 

 (To love a language not unknown,) 

 The milder glories fill'd her eye, 

 And there a softer lustre shone. 



Cartwright. 



