150 JUNE. 



the shepherd's-purse ; the bird's-eye ; the fox- 

 glove ; the blue-bell ; cuckoo-flower ; adder's- 

 tongue, and hart's-tongue ; goldy-locks ; hones- 

 ty ; heart's-ease ; true-love ; way-bread and 

 way-faring tree, etc. Many also bear the 

 traces of their religious feelings ; and still more 

 remind us of the religious orders by whom they 

 were made articles of their materia medica, or 

 materia sancta, each flower being dedicated 

 to that saint near whose day it happened to 

 blow. 



HOLY FLOWERS. 



Woe 's me — how knowledge makes forlorn ; 

 The forest and the field are shorn 

 Of their old growth, the holy flowers ; — 

 Or if they spring, they are not ours. 

 In ancient days the peasant saw 

 Them growing in the woodland shaw, 

 And bending to his daily toil, 

 Beheld them deck the leafy soil ; 

 They sprang around his cottage door ; 

 He saw them on the heathy moor ; 

 Within the forest's twilight glade, 

 Where the wild deer its covert made ; 

 In the green vale, remote and still, 

 And gleaming on the ancient hill. 

 The days are distant now, gone by 

 With the old times of minstrelsy, 

 When all unblest with written lore, 

 Were treasured up traditions hoar ; 

 And each still lake and mountain lone 

 Had a wild legend of its own ; 



