46 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



COLUMBINE. Clou 18. Order 5. A genoi of nx 



JJauileeia. 'P 6 95 found b Si ^ eria 1 . and S^P 6 ' 



"V U " C 6 "*' and from Canada to Carolina. Flower* 



red, purple, blue, while, etc. 



DESERTION. 



The Columbine in tawny often taken, 

 Is then ascribed to such as are forsaken. 



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SENTIMENT. 



How I have loved thee ! O, recall 



Those past delicious hours, 

 Which made me happy as a bird, 



In its sweet home of flowers: 

 And thou wast all my happiness, 



My love my joy my pride ! 

 Thou know'st I had no other joy, 



And none to love beside. 

 Then plighted we our nuptial troth, 



That it might never change, 

 Through all the cares and ills of earth, 



That other hearts estrange. 

 And thus through long long years but why 



Call back the visions flown? 

 They parted as the wave glides on 



They died as stars go down. 

 I will not wake those thoughts again, 



The hopes like meteor-glows 

 What now, alas ! are all to me ? 



Dreams! dreams of broken vows! 



MilUr. 



