FLORA S INTERPRETER. 209 



THISTLE, COMMON. Class 19. Order 1. This large 



Carduus cameolatus. 6 en . us is J* 11 1 th temperate 



regions of the Northern hemis- 

 phere, chiefly in Europe. Flow- 

 ers purple. 



MISANTHROPY. 



Tough Tfiistle choked the fields, and killed the corn, 

 And an unthrifty crop of weeds was born. 



Dryden. 



SENTIBIENT. 



Had I but pearls of price did golden piles 

 Of hoarded wealth swell in my treasury, 



Easy I 'd win the fawning flatterer's smiles, 

 And bend the sturdiest Stoic's iron knee; 

 For gold alone buys this world's courtesy. 



I grieve not that my gold could buy their grace, 



But that a man should need a toy so base. 



Oh! for an island in the boundless deep, 



Where rumor of the world might never come: 



Oh! for a cave where weltering waves might keep 

 Eternal music round which night-winds roam, 

 Mixing incessant with the surging foam: 



Here might I rest and smile in liberty, 



Forgotten live, since I unwept must die. 



A . A. Locke, 



ANSWER. 



'T is not well 



To let the spirit brood 

 Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell 



Life's current to a flood. 

 As brooks, and torrents, rivers, all 

 Increase the gulf in which they fall, 

 Such thoughts, by gathering up the rills 

 Of lesser griefs, spread real ills; 

 And with their gloomy shades conceal 

 The land-marks Hope would else reveal. 



18* Mrs, Dinniet. 



