88 FLORA'S LEXICON. 



ILLYFLOWER. Cheiranthus Incanus. 

 Class 15, TETRADYNAMIA. Order: SILI- 

 QUOSA. The gillyflower, less graceful 

 than the rose, less superb than the lily, 

 has a splendour more durable. Constant 

 in its benefits, it offers to us, all the year, 

 its beautiful red and pyramidal flowers, 

 which always diffuse an agreeable odour. The finest gillyflowers 

 are red ; they derive their name from their colour, which rivals 

 in brilliancy the far-famed purple of Tyre. White, violet, and 

 variegated gillyflowers have also their charms. This beautiful 

 flower may be said to grow in our parterres, like a blooming and 

 lively beauty, who scatters health around her ; health, that chief 

 of blessings, without which there can be neither happiness nor 

 lasting beauty. 



LASTING BEAUTY. 



'Tis not alone in the flush of morn, 

 In the cowslip-bell or the blossom thorn, 

 In noon's high hour, or twilight's hush, 

 In the shadowy stream, or the rose's blush, 

 Or in aught that bountiful Nature gives, 

 That the delicate Spirit of Beauty lives. 



Oh no! it lives and breathes, and lies, 

 In a home more pure than the morning skies ; 

 In the innocent heart it loves to dwell, 

 When it comes with a sigh or a tear to tell 

 Sweet visions that flow from a fount of love, 

 To mingle with all that is pure above. 



Sweet Spirit of Beauty ! my dreams are thine, 

 But I lose thee not when thy day-beams shine ; 

 Thy image is still to my constant gaze, 

 At midnight hour or noontide blaze; 

 And none but one with a heart unsold, 

 Can know the bliss which thy lovers hold. 



DAWES. 



