78 MORAL OF FLO WEES. 



THE FLOWER OF FENESTRELLA. 



CHARLES VERAMONT, Count de Charney, is young and 

 possessed of boundless wealth. He outlives every enjoy- 

 ment ; and, literally through exhaustion of feeling, plunges 

 into a conspiracy against Napoleon, and is imprisoned for 

 life in the 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 lt PICCIOLA." 



Dull vapors fill the joyless air, 



And cold the sunbeam falls 

 Within the court-yard, paved and bare, 



'Neath Fenestrella's walls. 



