LARKSPUR. 



Answer. 



(Continued.) 



Lightly thou say'st that woman's love is false, 



The thought is falser far 



For some of them are true as martyrs' legends, 



As full of suffering faith, of burning love, 



Of high devotion worthier of heaven than earth ; 



O, I do know a tale ! Maturin. 



LAUREL. 

 Kalmia. 



Treachery. 



goodly outside falsehood hath ! . . Shaks. 



What is man's love ? His vows are broke, 



Even while his parting kiss is warm. 1. . . Halleck. 



He is composed and fram'd of treachery ! . . Shaks. 



Stealing her soul with many vows of faith, 



And ne'er a true one ! same. 



Vanish'd is the faith of oaths. 



Euripides' Medea. 



Oh ! colder than the wind that freezes 

 Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, 



Is that congealing pang which seizes 

 The trusting bosom when betray'd. . 



Moore. 



* * * * He in whom 

 My heart had treasur'd all its boast and pride, 

 Proves faithless ........ Euripides' Medea. 



And all this, too, from him whom once I deemed 

 Stranger to fraud, nor capable of ill. 



Sophocles 1 Philoctetes. 



Then fare-thee-well I 'd rather make 



My bower upon some icy lake, 



When thawing suns begin to shine, 



Than trust to love so false as thine ..... Moore. 



LAURUSTINUS. 

 Viburnum tinus. 



A token. -^ laurustinus bear in blossom to my love. . . Anon. 



And mark me while I vow, 



By all this heart hath borne for thee, by all it suffers now, 

 In grief, or gladness, hope, despair, in bliss, or misery, 

 I '11 be, what I have ever been, to thee, to only thee ! 



Moore. 



Accept of this ; and could I add beside 



What wealth the rich Peruvian mountains hide ; 



If all the gems in eastern rocks were mine, 



On thee alone their glittering pride should shine. 



Lyttelton. 



