58 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



EGLANTINE. (European Sweet Brier.) Clatt 12. 



Rosa, rubi<rnosa. Order IS. Flower* pink color, some- 



M^IH, times whitish; sweet scented. 



I WOUND TO HEAL. 



And the fresh Eglantine exhaled a breath, 

 Whose odors were of power to raise from death. 



Spencer. 



SENTIMENT. 



When the tree of Love is budding first, 



Ere yet its leaves are green, 

 Ere yet by shower and sunbeam nursed 



Its infant lite hath been; 

 The wild bee's slightest touch might wring 



The buds from off the tree, 

 As the gentle dip of the swallow's wing 



Breaks the bubbles on the sea: 

 But when its open leaves have found 



A home in the free air, 

 Pluck them, and there remains a wound 



That ever rankles there. 

 The blight of hope and happiness 



Is felt when fond ones part; 

 And the bitter tear that follows, is 



The life-blood of the heart. 

 Then crush, even in the hour of birth, 



The infant buds of love, 

 And tread the growing fire to earth 



Ere 't is dark in clouds above. 

 Cherish no more a cypress tree 



To shade thy future years, 

 Nor nurse a heart-flame that must be 



Quenched only with thy tears. 



Halleck. 



