FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 99 



JASMINE, YELLOW. Class 14. Order 2. Found 



sempervirens. j" lho , K;ist . :uld l V( 'f 1lul "' s - 



The plant is a shrub or tree, 

 very beautiful. Flowers l;irg.:, 

 various colors, red, blue, yel- 

 low. 



GRACE AND ELEGANCE. 



Jasmines, some like silver spray, 

 Some like gold in the morning ray, 

 Fragrant stars and favorites they. 



Indian Bride. 



SENTIMENT. 



She was not very beautiful, if it be beauty's test 

 To match a classic model when perfectly at rest; 

 And she did not look bewitchingly, if witchery it be 

 To have a forehead and a lip transparent as the sea. 



The fashion of her gracefulness was not a followed rule, 

 And her effervescent sprighiliness was never learnt at school; 

 And her words were all peculiar, like the fairies who spoke pearls, 

 And her tone was ever sweetest midst the cadences of girls. 



Said I she was not beautiful ? Her eyes upon yonr sight 

 Broke with the lambent purity of planetary light ; 

 And on intellectual beauty, like a light within a vase, 

 Touched every line with glory of her animated face. 



Willi*. 



