"HERBULARIS" 79 



You know, you weed, I quite agree with you, 

 I am a weed myself, and I laugh too, 

 Both, just as long as we can shun his eye, 

 Let's sniff at the old gardener trudging by ! 



GERTRUDE HALL. 



"'TWAS IN THE BATH, A PIECE OF 

 PERFUMED CLAY" 



'TWAS in the bath, a piece of perfumed clay 



Came from my loved one's hands to mine, one day. 



" Art thou then musk or ambergris ? " I said, 



" That by thy scent my soul is ravished ? " 



" Not so," it answered, " worthless earth was I, 



But long I kept the rose's company ; 



Thus near, its perfect fragrance to me came, 



Else I'm but earth, the worthless and the same." 



SA'DI : " The Oulistdn." 

 (Translated by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE.) 



"HERBULARIS" 



A CHAPLET then of Herbs I'll make 



Than which though yours be braver, 

 Yet this of mine I'll undertake 



Shall not be short of savour : 

 With Basil then I will begin, 



Whose scent is wondrous pleasing ; 

 This Eglantine I'll next put in, 



The sense with sweetness seizing | 



