LABURNUM. 



(Continued.) 



There was a soft and pensive grace, 

 A cast of thought upon her face, 

 That suited well the forehead high, 

 The eye-lash dark, and downcast eye ; 

 The mild expression spoke a mind 

 In duty firm, composed, resigned. . . 



Scott. 



LADY'S SLIPPFR. 

 Cypripedium. 



Capricious beauty. 



Fair Cypripedia, with successful guile, 



Knits her smooth brow, extinguishes her smile. 



Darwin. 



When angry for ev'n in the tranquillest climes, 

 Light breezes will ruffle the blossoms sometimes 

 The short passing anger but seem'd to awaken 

 New beauty, like flowers that are sweetest when shaken. 



Moore. 



Say that she frown ; I '11 say she looks as clear 



As morning roses newly wash'd in dew. . . . Shaks. 



No, not the bow which so adorns the skies, 

 So glorious is, or boasts so many dyes. . . 



Waller. 



She will, and she will not, she grants, denies, 

 Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies. Granville. 



Come, come, 't will not do ! put that purling brow down ; 

 You can't, for the soul of you, learn how to frown. 



H. K. White. 



LAGERSTRJEMIA, Indian. 



-L. Indica. 



Eloquence. v Every word he speaks is is a syren's note 

 To draw the careless hearen J . . . . 



Beaumont. 



Celestial raptures flowed in every word, 



In every motion, kindling warmth divine, 



To seize who listen'd Akenside. 



Whose words all ears took captive Shaks. 



With an eloquence not like those rills from a height 

 Which sparkle, and foam, and in vapour are o'er, 



But a current that works out its way into light, 

 Through the filtering recesses of thought and of lore. 



Moore. 



So sweet and voluble is his discourse, 

 That aged ears play truant at his tales, 

 And younger hearings are quite ravished. 



Shaks. 



