FLORA'S INTERPRETER. U7 



LlLT OF THE VALLEY. Class 6. Order 1. American 

 Convallaria, or majalis. fP 6 8 ' common also to 

 Europe 2 species found in 

 Japan. Flowers generally 

 white, variegated with green; 

 a variety from Japan has violet- 

 colored Sowers. 



DELICATE SIMPLICITY. 



The Lily, in whose snow-white bells 

 Simplicity delights and dwells. 



Balfour. 



SENTIMENT. 



Fair girl! by whose simplicity 



My spirit has been won 

 From the stern earthliness of life, 



As shadows flee the sun; 

 I turn again to think of thee, 



And half deplore the thought, 

 That for one instant, o'er my soul, 



Forgetfulness hath wrought! 

 I turn to that charmed hour of hope, 



When first upon my view 

 Came the pure sunshine of thine heart, 



Borne from thine eyes of blue. 

 'T was thy high purity of soul 



Thy thought-revealing eye, 

 That placed me spell-bound at thy feet, 



Sweet wanderer from the sky. 



Willis G. Clark. 



ANSWER. 



O, would that the gush of the youthful heart 



Might linger in riper years! 

 That its simple spirit would not depart 



In the hours of grief and tears. 



F. 



