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^ncniOlU" COronaria. Natural Order: Raminculacea: — Croxvfoot Family. 



IN D- FLOWER is a frequent appellation of this beautiful 

 - little plant, which comes from the countries bordering 

 on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, known col- 

 , lectively as the Levant. We find quite a beautiful fable 

 :oncerning it in heathen mythology: Anemone was a nymph 

 . ., * ^ greatly beloved of Zephyr, and Flora, being jealous of her 

 . V luty, banished her from court, and finally transformed her into the 

 flower that bears her name; whence it is sometimes taken to express 

 witheied hopes. It is also connected with the story (already given) of 

 the love of Venus for Adonis, on which account the language has been 

 made "Anticipation," as she spent one-half the year longing and watch- 

 ing for his return. 



'yO the fond, doubting heart its hopes appear 

 ^ Too brightly fair, too sweet to reaHze; 

 All seem but daydreams of delight too dear; 

 Strange hopes and fears in painful contest rise, 

 While the scarce-trusted bliss seems but to cheat the 



Mrs. 



QUE looked from out the window 

 ^ With long and asking gaze, 

 F^rom the gold-clear light of morning 

 To the twilight's purple haze. 

 Cold and pale the planets shone, 

 Still the girl kept gazing on. 



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Tiglie. 



.- forehead 



From her white and 

 Droopeth the dark hair. 

 Heavy with the dews of evening, 

 Heavier with her care; 

 Falling as the shadows fall, 

 'Till flung 'round her like a pall 



— L. E. Landoii 



fair hope lay smiling 

 r, and all beguiling; 



hearts 

 ^ Sweet as ai 

 And there hung a mist of bluebells on the slope and down the dell ; 



And we talked of joy and splendor 



That the years unborn would render. 



And the blackbirds helped us with the story, for they knew it well. 



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