TULIP TREE, Blossom. 



(Continued.) 





For such immeasurable wo appears, 



These Flora banishes, and gives the fair 



Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own. 



Cowper. 



O, friendly to the best pursuits of man, 



Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, 



Domestic life in rural pleasures past same. 



You who the sweets of rural life have known, 



Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town. . . Gay. 



VENUS' LOOKING-GLASS. 

 Campanula speculum. 



Flattery. Thy words were courtly flattery, such sink like morn- 



ing dew, 



But, oh ! love takes another tone, the tender and the 

 true, L.E.L. 



I '11 mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say. 



Shaks. 



/ 



Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless, 



To be seduced by thy flattery, 



That hast deceived so many with thy vows ? , Shake. 



Answer. 

 Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not. . . same. 



Yet sure whene'er the praise is just, 



One may commend, without disgust. 



If 'tis offence, such truths to tell, 



Why do your merits thus excel ? Gay. 



VERBENA ; 

 or, Vervain. 



Sensibility. 



Sensibility, how charming, 

 Thou, my friend, canst truly tell ; 

 But distress, with horrors arming, 

 Thou hast also known too well ! 

 



Dearly bought, the hidden treasure, 

 Finer feelings can bestow ! 

 Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, 

 Thrill the deepest notes of wo. . . 



Burns. 



Where glow exalted sense, and taste refin'd, 

 There keener anguish rankles in the mind ; 

 There feeling is diffus'd through every part ; 

 Thrills in each nerve, and lives in all the heart. 



Hannah More. 



The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, 

 Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Moore. 



