22 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 



She saw in curious order set 



The fairest flowers of Eastern land 

 'He loved them once may touch them yet, 



If offered by Zulieka'.s hand.' 

 The childish thought was hardly breathed 

 Before the rose was plucked and wreathed ; 

 The next fond moment saw her seat 

 Her fairy form at Selim's feet : 

 This rose, to calm my brother's cares, 

 A message from the Bulbul bears ; 

 It says to-night he will prolong, 

 For Selim's ear the sweetest song; 

 And though his note is somewhat sad, 

 He'll try for once a strain more glad, 

 With some faint hope his altered lay, 

 May sing these gloomy thoughts away.' 



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He lived he breathed he moved he felt 

 He raised the maid from where she knelt j 

 His trance was gone his keen eye shone 

 With thoughts that long in darkness dwelt; 

 With thoughts that burn in rays that melt." 



BYRON. 



Let us present our readers with another picture, 

 somewhat similar to the first, only that the grief 

 is here deeper and more irremediable : 



"She lived on alms, and carried in her hand 

 Some withered stalks she gathered in the spring,- 



