230 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



Clots 21. Order 16. A genus of nine species, 

 Taxus found in Japan and the Cape of Good Hope, in 



Europe and the Americas. A tree associated 

 with melancholy and funereal gloom. 



PENITENCE. 



The mourning Few, that breathes of gloomy care, 

 Of early doom and penitential prayer. 



Anon. 



SENTIMENT. 



We will not ask what thorn has found 

 Keen entrance to thy bosom fair, 



If love hath dealt a deathless wound, 

 Or deeper folly woke despair. 



We only say, the sinless clime, 



On which is bent thy streaming eye, 



Hath pardon for the darkest crime, 

 Though erring man the boon deny. 



We only say, the prayerful breast, 

 The crystal tear of contrite pain, 



Hath power to ope the portal blest, 



Where pride and pomp have toiled in vain. 

 Token for 1828 



