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FLORA'S LEXICON. 



RUMPET FLOWER, ASH-LEAVED. 

 Bignonia Radicans. Class 14, DIDYNAMIA. 

 Order: ANGIOSPERMIA. Separations are 

 eagerly announced by the trumpets of scan- 

 dal and ill-nature, who by their discordant 

 sounds, frequently prevent the possibility of 

 a re-union. 



The gay corollas of this North American plant drop offj leav- 

 ing the pistilum destitute of protection, and hence it is presumed 

 the emblem was devised, for where attachment is so slight, sepa- 

 ration becomes easy. 



SEPARATION. 



Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom ! 



The spells of the spring-time arouse it no more, 

 The song in the wild-wood the sheen of the blossom 



The fresh-swelling fountain their magic is o'er! 

 When I list to the streams when I look on the flowers, 



They tell of the Past, with so mournful a tone, 

 That I call up the throngs of my long-vanish'd hours, 



And sigh that their transports are over and gone. 



From the wide-spreading earth from the limitless heaven, 



There have vanish'd an eloquent glory and gleam; 

 To my veil'd mind no more is the influence given, 



Which coloureth life with the hues of a dream. 

 The bloom-purpled landscape its loveliness keepeth 



I deem that a light as of old gilds the wave ; 

 But the eye of my spirit in heaviness sleepeth, 



Or sees but my youth and the visions it gave. 



CLARK. 



What! keep a week away? Seven days and nights] 

 Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours, 

 More tedious than the dial eight score times? 

 O weary reckoning! 



SHAKSPEARE. 



