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SWEET WlLLIAM. Clots 10. Order 2. The speciei 

 Diatltkus barbatUS. D ' barbatm i'^'genous to Germa- 

 ny, but naturalized in our country. 

 Flowers aggregate, one stem sup- 

 porting a large and brilliant bunch 

 of blossoms. Root perennial. 



A SMILE. 



I like this flower, Sweet William, on its leaf 



The smile the giver wore I see, 

 And though that smile, so sweet, was passing brief 



This simple flower can fix its memory. 



Anon, 



SENTIMENT. 



A human smile! how beautiful! 



Sometimes its blissful presence seems 

 Sweet as the gentle 'airs which lull 

 To sleep the holy flowers of Gul, 



Which blossom in the Persian's dreams: 



A lovely light whene'er it beams 

 On beauty's brow, in beauty's eye, 

 And not one token lingers nigh, 

 On lip, or eye, or cheek unbidden, 

 To tell of anguish vainly hidden! 

 But oh, there is a smile which steals 



Sometimes upon the brow of care, 

 And, like the north's cold light, reveals 



But gathering darkness there. 

 You 've seen the lightning-flash at night 



Play briefly o'er its cloudy pile, 

 The moonshine tremble on the height, 

 Where winter glistens cold and bright ; 

 And like that flash, and like that light, 



Is sorrow's vain and heartless smile! 



/. G. Whittitr. 



