122 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



LUPINE. Class 17. Order 4. Found in both Atmncnn, 



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cultivated for flowers are white, blue, yellow, 

 and rose-colored. 



DEJECTION, SORROW. 



The Lupines here, as evening shadows rise, 

 Low droop their sorrowing leaves, 

 And close their humid eyes. 



Garland of Flora. 



SENTIMENT. 



Oh! for my bright and faded hours, 

 When life was like a summer stream, 

 On whose gay banks the virgin flowers 

 Blushed in the morning's rosy beam. 



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 That scene of love! where hath it gone; 

 Where have its charms and beauty sped? 

 My hours of youth that o'er me shone, 

 Where have their light and splendor fled? 

 Into the silent lapse of years 

 And I am left on earth to mourn; 

 And I am left to drop my tears 

 O'er memory's lone and icy urn! 



/. R. Staermcister. 



ANSWER. 



Methinks when on the languid eye 



Life's autumn's scenes grow dim, 

 When evening shadows veil the sky, 



And pleasure's syren hymn 

 Grows fainter on the tuneless ear, 

 Like echoes from another sphere, 



Or dreams of seraphim 

 It were not sad to cast away 

 This dull and cumbrous load of clay. 



Willis G. Clark 



