96 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



IRIS. (Flower de Luce.) Order 3. Clatt 1. 



Iris cristdtd. Found in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North 



America. Flowers of various colors. 



MY COMPLIMENTS. 



The various Iris Juno sends with haste. 



Ovid. 



SENTIMENT. 



I send this flower to one made up 



Of loveliness alone; 

 A woman of her gentle sex 



The seeming paragon; 

 To whom the better elements 



And kindly stars have given 

 A form so fair, that, like the air, 



T is less of earth than heaven. 



Affections are as thoughts to her, 



The measure of her hours; 

 Her feelings have the fragrancy, 



The freshness of young flowers. 

 O would that on the earth there moved 



Others of such a frame, 

 That life might be all poetry, 



And weariness a name. 



E. C. Pinckney, 



