194 FLORA'S INTERPRETED. 



SAGE. Class 2. Order 1. A large genus, ami 



e / '* /K .\,~7,'o widely disseminated over the world. 



Salvia officinahs. , n w / rm regiona the flowerg are large 



and beautiful. The common garden 

 sage is medicinal. Flowers bluish. 



DOMESTIC VIRTUES. 



Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in hortol 

 How can a man die in whose garden there grows sage ? 



Old Proverb. 



SENTIMENT. 



Howe'er the sceptic scoffs, the poet sighs, 

 Hope oft reveals her dimly shadowed dreams; 

 And seraph joy descends from pale blue skies, 

 And, like sweet sunset on wood-skirted streams, 

 Peace breathes around her stilling harmonies, 

 Her whispered music, while her soft eye beams; 

 And the deep bliss that crowns the household hearth, 

 From all its woes redeems the bleeding earth. 



Hail! ye fair charities ! the mellow showers 

 Of the heart's spring-time! from your rosy breath 

 The way-worn pilgrim, though the tempest lowers, 

 Breathes a new being in the realms of death, 

 And bears the burden of life's darker hours, 

 With cheerless aspect o'er the lonely heath, 

 That spreads between us and the unfading clime 

 Where true Love triumphs o'er the death of Time. 



8. L. Fairfid>L 



