120 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



LOTOS FLOWER. Classn. Order 10. NativeofEgypt 



r,j - and India. An aquatic plaut its 



fruit growing from the root is good for 



food. Flowers red, blue, and white. 



ESTRANGED LOVE. 

 Lotos, the nymph, (if rural tales be true,) 



Forsook her form; and, fixing here, became 

 A flowery plant, which still preserves her name. 



Pope'$ Ovid. 



SENTIMENT. 



Farewell farewell! there is no tie, 



When we are far apart, 

 To be, in every changing scene, 



A spell upon thy heart! 

 It is not that the glow is less 



Upon thy glorious brow, 

 Nor that thy voice has lost the soul 



Of silvery music now. 

 Nor is it that a fickle heart 



Another god has made, 

 And reared another shrine, whereon 



Its votive gifts are laid. 



But passion's sun at rising shone 



With all its noontide power, 

 And called those young buds into bloom 



It withered in an hour. 

 Like kindlier warmth to spring flowers given 



Than their own April sky, 

 To bid those flowerets early bloom, 



But earlier to die. 



Hindu, 



