FLORA'S LEXICON. 



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PIDERWORT. Anthericum. Class 6, HEX- 

 ANDRIA. Order : MONOGYNIA. This plant 

 is generally admitted as a border flower. 

 The French have called it Ephemerine de 

 Virginie, because its flowers fade rapidly , 

 they have also made it the emblem of tran- 

 sient happiness. The dead flowers are 

 quickly succeeded by others, from April to the end of October. 



TRANSIENT HAPPINESS 



Sweet, as the desert-fountain's wave 

 To lips just cooPd in time to save. 



BYRON. 



There comes 



For ever something between us and what 

 We deem our happiness. 



BYRON. 



All who joy would win 

 Must share it happiness was born a twin. 



BYRON. 



Like a frail shadow seen in maze, 

 Or some bright star shot o'er the ocean. 

 Is happiness, that meteor's blaze, 

 For ever fleeting in its motion. 

 It plays within our fancied grasp, 

 Like a phantasmagorean shade, 

 Pursued e'en to the latest grasp, 

 It still seems hovering in the glade. 

 'Tis but like hope, and hope's at best 

 A star that leads the weary on, 

 Still pointing to the unpossess'd, 

 And palling that it beams upon. 



ANON. 



