18 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



AMARANTH, GLOBE. ClastS. Order 5. 



Gomphrena, globosa. %^ 



species; white, purple, and 

 variegated. They resemble, 

 in their form, heads of clover 



UNCHANGEABLE. 



And hong long locks of hair, and garlands bound, 



With Amaranth flowers, 

 Such flowers as in the wintry memory bloom, 



Of one friend left. 



Southiy. 



SENTIMENT. 



Think not, beloved, time can break 



The spell around us cast, 

 Or absence from my bosom take 



The memory of the past: 

 My love is not that silvery mist, 

 From summer blooms by sunbeams kissed, 



Too fugitive to last 

 A fadeless flower, it still retains 

 The brightness of its earlier stains. 



Nor burns it like the raging fire, 

 In tainted breast which glows ; 

 All wild and thorny as the brier, 



Without its opening rose: 

 A gentler, holier love is mine, 

 Unchangeable and firm, while thine 



Is pure as mountain snows; 

 Nor yet has passion dared to breathe 

 A spell o'er Love's immortal wreath. 



Anon. (Albany Advertittr.) 



