160 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



POPPY, SCARLET. Class and Order as the preceding. 



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u r found in cornfields, etc. 



FANTASTIC EXTRAVAGANCE. 



Poppy, thy charms attract the vulgar gaze, 

 And tempt the view with meretricious blaze: 

 Caught by the glare, with pleasure they behold 

 Thy glowing crimson melting into gold. 

 In vain to nobler minds thy lure is spread, 

 Thy painted front, thy cup of glowing red; 

 Beneath thy bloom such noxious vapors lie, 

 That, when obtained and smelt, we loathe and fly. 



Joseph Taylor. 



SENTIMENT. 



Nor yet too brightly strive to blaze, 



By stealing all the rainbow rays; 



Your gaudy, artificial fly 



Will only take the younger fry. 



Who has not seen, and seeing mourned, 



And mourning smiled, and smiling scorned, 



In wild ambition flaming down, 



Some comet from a country town? 



See, see her in her motley hues; 



Funereal blacks and brimstone blues, 



And lurid green, and bonfire red, 



At once their varied radiance shed; 



And skin deep gold, and would be pearls, 



And oh! those heaps of corkscrew curls. 



O. W. Holmet, 



