78 SIORALOFFLOWEKS. 



THE FLOWER OF FENESTRELLA. 



CHARLES VERAJIONT, Count de Charney, is young and 

 possessed of boundless wealth. lie outlives every enjoy- 

 ment ; and, literally through exhaustion of feeling, plunges 

 into a conspiracy against Napoleon, and is imprisoned for 

 life in ihe small fortress of Fenestrella. Solitude nearly 

 drives him mad; he curses fate, life, the world and he 

 denies God. Suddenly a small plant springs up between 

 two stones of the pavement; and to this plant he gives the 

 endearing name of Picciola. He actually forms a friend- 

 ship for it ; and at length loves it with all the force of 

 which that tender passion is susceptible. He by degrees 

 learns the value of life; is awakened to the beauty of the 

 world, and learns to acknowledge and worship God with 

 sincere and fervent piety. See Mrs. Gore's " PICCIOLA." 



Dull vapors fill the joyless air, 



And cold the sunbeam falls 

 Within the court-yard, paved and bare, 



'Neath Fenestrella's walls. 



