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ELL-FLOWER, ROUNDLEAVED BELL- 

 FLOWER, or HAREBELL. Campanula 

 Rotundifolia. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Or- 

 der: MONOGYNIA. The name of Bell-flower 

 was never more appropriately bestowed 

 than on this pretty, delicate plant, which 

 has been imagined by some fanciful poets 

 to ring out a peal of fairy music. 



CONSTANCY. 



Over the moorland, over the lea, 

 Dancing airily, there are we : 

 Sometimes, mounted on stems aloft, 



We wave o'er broom and heather, 

 To meet the kiss of the Zephyr soft ; 



Sometimes, close together, 

 Tired of dancing, tired .of peeping, 

 Under the whin you'll find us sleeping. 



Daintily bend we our honey'd bells, 



While the gossiping bee her story tells, 



And drowsily hums and murmurs on 



Of the wealth to her waxen storehouse gone, 



And though she gathers our sweets the while, 



We welcome her in with a nod and a smile. 



TWAMLEY. 



Sooner I'll think the sun would cease to cheer 

 The teeming earth, and then forget to bear; 

 Sooner that rivers would run back, or Thames 

 With ribs of ice in June would bind his streams : 

 Or nature, by whose strength the world endures, 

 Would change her course before you alter yours. 



JONSON. 



When all things have their trial, you shall find 

 Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind. 



SHIRLEY. 



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