LAGERSTRJEMIA. 



(Continued.) 



When Minerva rose, 

 From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay. 



Gaze as we learn, and as we listen, love. . Darwin. 



Whose gentle lips persuade without a word, 

 Whose words, e'en when unmeaning, are ador'd. 



Moore. 



'Tis not the powerful arm, 

 But soft enchanting tongue, that governs all. 



Sophocles' Philoctetes. 



To listen to her, is to seem to wander 



In some enchanted labyrinth of romance, 



Whence nothing but the lovely fairy's will 



That wove the spell, can extricate the wanderer. Scott. 



LARKSPUR. 



Delphinium. 



Lightness. For unto knight there is no greater shame, 



Than lightness, and inconstancy in love. . . Spencer. 



Men's fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 

 More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, 



Than women's are. . . . Shaks. 



He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat, 



It ever changeth with the next block same. 



No woman can endure a recreant knight. . . Dryden. 



They know how fickle common lovers are ; 



Their oaths, and vows, are cautiously believed, 



For few there are, but have been once deceived, same. 



LARKSPUR, Pink. 

 D. 



Fickleness. Ladies whose love is constant as the wind. . Young. 



We in vain the fickle sex pursue, 



Who change the constant lover for the new. Prior. 



Of constancy no rootinfix'd, 



That either they love nothing, or not long. same. 



Inconstant as the passing wind, 



As winter's dreary frost unkind ; 



To fix her, 'twere a task as vain 



To count the April drops of rain Smollet. 



She was fair and my passion begun ; 

 She smiled and I could not but love ; 

 She is faithless and I am undone. . . . Shcnstone. 



