FORTUNA FLORA. 271 



FRIENDSHIP. 



1. Friendship is not a plant of hasty growth, 

 Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil ; 

 The gradual culture of kind intercourse 

 Must bring it to perfection, make it flower. 



Joanna Baillie. 



2. O ! let my friendship, in the wreath, 



Though but a bud among the flowers, 



Its sweetest fragrance round thce breathe, 



'Twill serve to soothe thy weary hours. 



Amelia B. Wetty. 



3. The least flower, with a brimming cup, may stand, 

 And share its dew-drop with another near. 



Miss Barrett. 



4. I count myself in nothing else so happy, 

 As in a soul remembering my good friends. 



Shakspeare. 



6. That union where all that in woman is kind. 



With all that in man most enaoblingly towers, 

 Grow wreathed into one like the column combined 

 Of the strength of the shaft and the capital's flowers. 



Moore. 



6. The blossoms of passion, 



Gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of 



fragrance ; 

 But they beguile us, and lead us astray, and their odox 



is deadly. 



LongfeUow. 



7. Dear friend, the hills rise bare and bleak 



That bound thy future years ; 

 Clouds veil the sky j no golden streak, 



No rainbow light, appears ; 

 But, by those hopes which, plumed with light, 



The sad exulting spurn, 

 Love's paradise shall bloom more bright, 



The spring-time will return. 



