82 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



HEART'S EASE. Class 5. Order 1. The genns Viola 



Vinln trirnlnr a almost equally divided between 



yiOla, tricolor. Europe and North America. Flower* 



blue, purple, white, and every variety 



of color. 



LOVE IN IDLENESS. 



This flower (as Nature's poet sweetly sings) 



Was once milk-white, and Heart's Ease was its name, 



Till wanton Cupid poised his roseate wings, 



A vestal's sacred bosom to inflame. 



Heart's Ease no more the wandering shepherd found; 



No more the Nymphs its snowy form possess; 



Its white now changed to purple by Love's wound 



Heart's Ease no more, 't is ' Love in Idleness.' 



Mrs. R. B. Sheridan. 



SENTIMENT. 



As we look back through life in our moments of madness, 

 How few, and how brief are its gloamings of gladness; 

 Yet we find, midst the gleam that our pathway o'er- 



shaded, 



A few spots of sunshine, a few flowers unfaded: 

 And memory still hoards, as her richest of treasures, 

 Some moments of rapture, some exquisite pleasures. 

 One hour of such bliss is a life ere it closes, 

 T is one drop of fragrance from thousands of roses. 



Wetmore. 

 ANSWER. 



They tell me the vision of bliss that is glinting, 

 My heart's star of promise in gloom will decline, 



And the fair scene that Fancy, the fairy, is tinting, 

 Will lose all its sunny glow ere it is mine. 



O, if Love and Life be but a fairy illusion, 



And the cold future bright but in Fancy 's young eye, 



Still, let me live in the dreamy delusion, 



And, true and unchanging, hope on till I die. 



Mrt. Osgood 



