220 FLORA S INTERPRETER. 



VlOLET, YELLOW. The on 'y species of Viola found on 

 Vinln niiJtnJH the P lulu9 of M' s8ouri > fronl the COQ - 



Yiola nuttalli. fluence of the riv 



Manden. Flowers small, yellow, 

 purplish on the under side. 



ftURAL HAPPINESS. 



When beechen buds begin to swell, 

 And woods the blue-birds' warble know, 

 The yellow violet's smiling bell 

 Peeps from the last year's leaves below. 



Bryant. 



SENTIMENT. 



How cheap 



Is genuine happiness, and yet how dearly 

 Do we all pay for its base counterfeit! 

 We fancy wants, which to supply, we dare 

 Danger and death, enduring the privation 

 Of all free nature offers in her bounty, 

 To attain that, which, in its full fruition, 

 Brings but satiety. The poorest man 

 May taste of nature in her element, 

 Pure, wholesome, never cloying ; while the richest, 

 From the same stores, does but elaborate 

 A pungent dish of well-concocted poison. 

 Thanks to my humble nature, while I Ve limbs, 

 Tastes, senses, I 'm determined to be rich; 

 So long as that fine alchymist, the sun, 

 Can transmute into gold whate'er I like 

 On earth, in air, or water} while a banquet 

 Is ever spread before me, in a hall 

 Of Heaven's own building, perfumed with the breath 

 Of nature's self, and ringing to the sounds 

 Of her own choristers. 



/. JV. Barktr. 



