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NIGHTSHADE. Clax* 5. Order I. A very extensive 



Solatium, nigrum. f '"' m . ortf llia " '" *" v " ;s are 



liiuiiil in America. I here art! species 

 ul.-n in India and Africa. Tin; SW//- 

 nuin niif nun. has white flowers with 

 yellow a n tliers. 



DARK THOUGHTS. 



Thy baneful root, Solatium, must arise 

 From dismal, dark Tartarean shade. 



Garland of Flora. 



SENTIMENT. 



O say, why age, and grief, and pain, 

 Shall long to go, but long in vain; 

 Why vice is left to mock at time, 

 And, gray in years, grow gray in crime; 

 While youth, that every eye makes glad, 

 And beauty, all in radiance clad, 

 And goodness, cheering every heart, 

 Come, but come onlv to depart; 

 Sunbeams, to cheer life's wintry day 

 Sunbeams, to flash, then fade away. 



Spragut. 



ANSWER. 



When Heaven's unerring pencil writes on every pilgrim's breast, 

 As passport to Time's changeful shore, ' Lo this is not your rest; 

 Why build ye towers, ye fleeting ones? Why bowers of fra 



grance rear 

 As if the self-deluded soul might find its solace here? ' 



In vain! in vain! for storms will rise, and o'er your treasures 



sweep; 



But when loud thunders vex the wave, and deep replies to deep- 

 When in your desolated path Hope's glittering fragments lay, 

 Spring up, and fix your grasp on that which never can decay. 



Mrs. Sigourney. 



