212 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



TUBEROSE. Class 2. Order 6. Native of th 



tuberosa. 



with pink resembles a hyacinth 

 very odoriferous. Corolla monope- 

 taloua. No calyx. Root perennial. 

 A SWEET VOICE. 



Eternal spring, with smiling verdure here, 

 Warms the mild air, and crowns the youthful year: 

 Tho Tuberose ever breathes, and violets blow. 



GartA. 



SENTIMENT. 



If you have seen a summer star, 

 Liquidly soft, and faintly far, 

 Beaming a smiling glance on earth, 

 As if it watched the floweret's birth, 

 Then you have seen a light less fair 

 Than that young maiden's glances were. 

 Dark fell her tresses; you have seen 



A rent cloud tossing in the air, 

 And showing the pure sky between 



Its floating fragments, here and there, 

 Then you may fancy, faintly, how 

 The falling tress the ring-like curl, 

 Disclosed or shadowed o'er the brow 

 And neck of that fair girl. 

 Her cheek was delicately thin, 

 And through its pure, transparent white, 

 The rose hue wandered out and in, 

 As you have seen the inconstant light 

 Flush o'er the northen sky of night. 

 Her playful lip was gently full, 



Soft curving to the graceful chin, 

 And colored like the fruit which glows 

 Upon the sunned pomegranate boughs; 

 And oh, her soft, low voice might lull 



The spirit to a dream of bliss, 

 As if the voices, sweet and bland, 

 Which murmur in the seraph land, 

 Were warbling in a world like this. 



/. G. Wliittier 



