LOTOS FLOWER— Continued. pe weak i impress of love, is as a figu 
Trenched in ice; which, with an ee s = heat 
Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form..... Shaks. 
At first I ro adore a twinkling star, 
But now rship a celestial sun. 
Unheedful ¥ vows may heedfully be broken........ Id. 
So th brane my former love 
Is by a newer object site FORROUCG soe ss Ge ie o's Id. 
ANSWER. 
Some witchery seems to await you!......... Moore. 
Are you not Lysander? 
I am as fair now as I was erewhile....... ... Shaks. 
Read over Julia’s heart, thy first best love. 
For whose dear sake thou didst then oa thy faith 
Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths 
Descended into perju ry an a ae igh. Ta. 
LOTOS LEAF. RECANTATION. You :.. gd ask— 
‘‘ Wherefore doth Lysa 
Deny your love, so och: ttn his soul!’’ . . . Shaks. 
Have I not managed my contrivance well 
To try your love, and make you doubt of mine? 
D 
ryden. 
LOVE IN-A-MIST. Perptexity. Love in these labyrinths his slave detains! .... Pope. 
NIGELLA DAMASCENA. Perplexity and doubt distract my though 
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. 
In such a maze of love my thoughts are los 
, aaa s Ovid. 
Long, long held by a spell too dear, 
Thy smile has kept thy be: fern, 
ug = 
? 
But love lights high and Lace thought 
A rich prize must be dearly bought....... be RH, DB. 
d must I go—‘‘ Without the hope 
My sev heart still clings to, pe that hope 
Is like the opiate which may lu 
Then wake to double torture?’’ ....... eee Shae. 
Without a word, a look of tenderness, 
To be called up, when, in his lonely hours, 
He would indulge in weeping. ......-.---- Rogers. 
ANSWER. 
any dark fears of to-day 
sl bright Sais nacelle Cviseees . Pinkney. 
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