SYRINGA, Carona. 
PHILADELPHUS: INODORUS. 
THISTLE. 
THORN APPLE. 
DATURA STRAMONIUM. 
DISAPPOINTMENT. 
MISANTHROPY. 
Bright blown bine dispersed in air! ...... ye pa & 
That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it in our hope : 
Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss. ..... Byron. 
Oh! ever thus, from childhood’s mea 
I’ve seen my fondeet hopes decay.......... Moore. 
'Tis ever oo ‘tis ever thus, when hope has built a 
Like that a Eden, wreathed about with every thorn- 
s flower, 
To sa cll therein securely, the self-deceiver’s trust 
A whirlwind from the desert comes—and all is 4 the 
dust 
I eae the phantoms, and I found them os 
! had I weighed it ere my fond embrac 
W joa darts of agony had missed my he ey .. Young. 
We talk of love and pleasure—but ’tis all 
A tale of falsehood. Life’s made up of gloom, 
The fairest scenes are clad in ruin’s pall, 
The loveliest pathway leads but to the tomb. Percival. 
Only this is sure, 
In this world nought save misery can endure. 
MM 
rs. Embury. 
that the desert were my dwelling sae 
fia I might all forget the human race! ,... . Byron. 
ANSWER. 
Tis not well 
To let thy oust brood 
Thus sadly o’er the cares that swell 
Life’s current to a flood Ladies’ Mag. Vol. 
n the noble mind forever brood, 
The willing victim of a wearied mood? 
Shame to the itgcsabrpe pa that e’er betray’d 
The morn of manhood to a myrtle shade. 
Campbell's Pleas. of Hope. Part 2. 
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DECEITFUL CHARMS. 
Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes. Shaks. 
re words, then, only false? are there no looks 
Mute, but most eloquent? L. EB. £. 
That mute eloquence which passes speech. .. . Rogers. 
e eyes 
Were not in fault, for she was — : 
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor mine heart 
That thought her like her seeming ; “it had been vicious 
To have mistrusted her. . - Shak. 
