STRAWBERRY TREE. 



(Continued.) 



And long experience of your goodness 

 What then was passion, is my judgment now. 

 Through all the several changes of your life, 

 Confirm'd and settled in adoring you. 



Haynes" 1 Fatal Mistake. 



For all true love is grounded on esteem. 



Buckingham. 



SUMACH, Venice. Splendour. 



Rhus cotinus. 



, 



To splendour only do we live ? 



Must pomp alone our thoughts employ ? 



All, all that pomp and splendour give, 



Is dearly bought with love and joy ! . Cartwright. 



Can wealth give happiness ? look round and see 



What gay distress ! what splendid misery ! 



I envy none their pageantry and show, 



I envy none the gilding of their wo. . . . Young. 



\ 

 No flocks, nor herds, nor stores of gold, 



Nor house, nor home have I, 

 If beauty must be bought and sold, 



Alas ! / cannot buy ! ....... Old song. 



Answer. 



Truth, the sunshine of the breast, 



Were Armine's wealth, were Armine's fame. 



No wealth nor pow'r had he, 

 Wisdom and worth were all he had, 

 But these were all to me ! 



Cartwright. 



Goldsmith. 



^erit like his, the fortune of the mind, 

 Beggars all wealth. 



Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda. 



I feel I love him, and, in that word are contained birth, 

 feme, and riches ..... O'Keefe. Wild Oats. 



Oh ! if gold could win his heart, 

 I should from the search depart. 



L. E. L. 



" What can wealth be to that young heart 



Which has a mine of treasure in its own fresh feelings?" 



SUN FLOWER, Dwarf. 



Helianthus indicus. 



Your devout adorer. Oh ! the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, 



But as truly loves on to the close ; 

 As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, 

 The same look which she gave when he rose. 



Moore. 



