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DAFFODIL. Class 6. Order 1. It is a magnifi- 



major. cnt flower, a natto of Spain. Color 

 a golden yellow. 



UNCERTALNTY. 



JVarcmtw, brilliant as our hopes, 

 Uncertain as our date. 



Jlnonymout. 



SENTIMENT. 



Thou art now in thy morning and thy youth 

 Speaks in the leaping blood that rides thy pulse, 

 And plants its banner on thy cheek and brow. 

 Young light is in thy eye, and on thy heart; 

 Thy days are hut the da \vninjis of new hopes, 

 And thy nights lull of beauty! But time time, 

 That stern revolver of our wannest dreams, 

 Will mark thy life with passages of grief, 

 And deal thy portion to tlu-e. 



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I have seen change though youth is on my brow, 

 I have seen change. 1 've trod the glittering way 

 Of the loud throng and lived in lighted halls; 

 Fate too has called me to another scene, 

 And time has brought its trial. I have passed 

 To life's extremes! quiet, and laid down 

 In thankfulness of spirit, that my heart 

 Found joy in that sweet silence. I have said, 

 Let the world heave on in its ocean-noise, 

 I ask but friends and home and if to these 

 Heaven add the boon of love, my lot is full, 

 And rapture yet may light my pilgrimage. 



Grenville Melltn. 



