48 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



COREOPSIS, ARKANSA. Class 19. Order 8. Am 



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continues in flower till an 

 turnn. Flowers yellow. 



ALWAYS CHEERFUL. 



The Coreopsis, cheerful aa the smile 



That brightens on the cheek of youth, and sheds 



A gladness o'er the aged. 



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SENTIMENT. 



The world is bright before thee, 



Its summer flowers are thine; 

 Its calm blue sky is o'er thee, 



Thy bosom pleasure's shrine; 

 And thine the sunbeam given 



To nature's morning hour, 

 Pure, warm, as when from heaven 



It burst on Eden's bower. 



There is a song of sorrow, 



The death-dirge of the gay, 

 That tells, ere dawn of morrow, 



These charms may melt away, 

 That sun's bright beam be shaded, 



That sky be blue no more, 

 The summer flowers be faded, 



And youth's warm promise o'er. 



Believe it not though lonely 



Thy evening home may be, 

 Though beauty's bark can only 



Float on a summer's sea; 

 Though time thy bloom is stealing, 



There 's still beyond his art 

 The wild-flower wreath of feeling, 



The sunbeam of the heart. 



