DAISY, White. 



Bellis. 



Innocence. 



Whose white investments figure innocence. 



Shaks. 



Flowers sweet and gay, and delicate like you, 

 Emblem of innocence, and beauty too. Mrs. Barbauld. 



The bloom of opening flower's unsullied beauty, 



Softness, and sweetest innocence she wears, 



And looks like nature in the world's first spring. Rowe. 



Then her face, 



So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, 

 The overflowings of an innocent heart. 



Rogers. 



Her manners, by the world refin'd, 

 Left all the taint of modish vice behind, 

 And made each charm of polish'd courts agree 

 With candid truth's simplicity, 

 And uncorrupted innocence Lyttelton. 



Her heavenly form 

 Angelic, but more soft and feminine, 

 Her graceful innocence, her every air 

 Of gesture or least action, overaw'd Milton. 



DANDELION. 

 Leontodon taraxacum. 



Coquetry. This is the flower that smiles on every one. . Shaks. 



In crowds around thee gaze the admiring swains. 



Darwin. 



The butterfly of various hue, 

 More than these flowers resemble you ; 

 Fair, flutt 'ring, fickle, busy thing, 

 To pleasure ever on the wing, 

 Gaily coquetting for an hour, 

 To die, and ne'er be thought of more. 

 Yet certain, as these flowers fade 

 Time every beauty will invade Gay. 



All my fond love, thus do I blow to heaven ! . . Shakt. 



Vain was the vow to forsake, or forget, 



A look brought him back to the dear coquette. . . L. 





DEW PLANT. 



Mesembryanthemum. 



A Serenade. Where should this music be ? i' the air, or the earth ? 



Shaks. 



'Twas musical, but sadly sweet, 



Such as when winds and harp-strings meet. . Byron. 



