FLORA S PARTY. !flf 



Signer Snow-Ball assented, and ventured to 



add 

 An opinion, that &quot; all Nature s coloring was 



bad ;&quot; 

 He had thought so, e er since a short period he 



spent, 

 To muse on the paintings of Rome, as he 



went 



To visit his friend Rhododendron, who chose 

 An abode on the Alps, in a palace of snows. 

 But he took, on Mont Blanc, a most terrible 



chill, 

 And since his return had been pallid and ill. 



Half-wither d Miss Hackrnetack studied her 



And hop d with her cousins, the Spruces, to 



pass ; 



But Ivy, the sage antiquarian, who knew 

 Every cycle, twas said, that Chronology drew, 

 Thro his near-sighted optics, descrying her 



late, 



Discompos d her, by asking some aid in a date ; 

 So she pouted her lip*, and said, tartly, with 



scorn, 

 She &quot; could not remember before she was 



born.&quot; 



