FLORA'S LEXICON. 73 



AHLIA. Dahlia. Class 19, SYNGENESIA. 

 Order: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Named 

 in honour of Andrew Dahl, a Swedish bota- 

 nist. A mountain flower of South America, 

 recently become . very fashionable among 

 the florists of the United States, who vie 

 with each other in the number and beauty 

 of the different varieties which they cultivate, and which form 

 the chief ornament of all our horticultural exhibitions. 



FOR E^ER THINE. 



Yes! still 1 love thee: Time, 



His signet on my brow ; 

 And dims my sunken eye, forgets 



The heart ho could not bow ; 

 Where love, that cannot perish, grows 

 For one, alas ! that little knows 



How love may sometimes last ; ^ 



Like sunshine wasting in tho skies, 



When clouds are overcast. 



The dew-drop hanging o'er the rose, 



Within its robe of light, 

 Can never touch a leaf that blows, 



Though seeming to the sight; 

 And yet it still will linger there, 

 Like hopeless love without despair, 



A snow-drop in the sun ! 



A moment finely exquisite, 



Alas! but only oneX 



DAWES. 



