102 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



LABURNUM. Clastn. Order 4. A genus ofabont 12 



CvtlSUS species; six of which belong to America. 



" Flowers purplish or yellow. 



PENSIVE BEAUTY. 



When the dark-leaved Laburnum's drooping cluster 

 Reflects athwart the stream their yellow lustre, 

 Like pensive beaut/ at her sweet devotions. 



SENTIMENT. 



Thy mild looks are all eloquent, 



Thy bright ones free and glad, 

 Like glances from a pleiad sent, 



Thy sad ones sweetly sad; 

 And when a tear is in thine eye, 



To witch with sorrow's spell, 

 O, none may pass thee idly by, 



My own sweet Rosabelle. 



Bright dreams attend thee, gentle one, 



The brightest and the best ; 

 For sorrows scarce can fall upon 



A maid so purely blest. 

 And when death's shadows round thee swell, 



And dim thy starry eyes, 

 O, mayst thou be, my Rosabelle, 



A spirit of the skies 



Robert Morris. 



