18 VOICE OF FLOWERS. 



FLORA S PARTY. 



LADY FLORA gave cards for a party at tea, 

 To flowers, buds, and blossoms of ev ry degree ; 

 So from town and from country they thronged 



at the call, 

 And strove, by their charms, to embellish the 



hall. 



First flock d the exotics, with ornaments rare, 

 The tall Oleander and Heliotrope fair ; 

 Camella, resplendent with jewels new set, 

 And changeful Hydrangia, the heartless co 

 quette. 



The Tulips came flaunting in gaudy array, 

 With Hyacinths, bright as the eye of the day ; 

 Dandy Coxcombs and Daffodils, proudly polite, 

 With their dazzling red vests, and their corsets 



laced tight ; 



While the Soldiers in Green, cavalierly at 

 tired, 



Were all by the ladies extremely admired ; 

 But the beautiful Lily, with bosom of snow, 

 Complain d that those officers star d at her so, 

 She was strangely confus d, and would like to 



be told 



What they saw in her manners that made them 

 so bold. 



