And faith that a thousand ills can brave, 
Speaks in the blue oo sone me not, Percival. 
Yr h d 
logue as tea 
That hisper, when reo g Esco grieves 
For one beloy od afar, nce wea 
motes 
g leaves 
Halleck. 
the pansy freakt with jet; 
The sowing violet. Milton. 
The FV. Tricolor. >» differing 
from it, in the © variety “of its coloring, ‘the petals Set chiefly 
bend Mirna Its 
very infe 
of | 
h black and } purp. 
» North Athericn, © etc. 
r 
rm situa 
ted with the white snow, which surrounds ‘it. 
7. =F Dn 
to pea pe all Ghee North pmericey 
in bard 
ree cannot forbear giving 
own beautiful languag fanciful origin of its 
‘lying between the cold sacon, and the earth, 
cupid all arm’d; 
a fair vestal, thro aca west, 
oor gga his loveshat Pescrin A a his = 
ould pierc sand hearts 
Cupid" 8 tery shaft 
duench’d i in the chaste beams of the wat’ry moon; 
on, 
the bolt anc f Cupid fell; 
t fell upon a little e western fl 
‘ore m perple with Love’s wound, 
madly doa 
pon the next live creature that it sees. "hake. M. N. D. 
In myotanss oft a beauteous fic flow’r oak x eter 
>» Or unsee 
ee sweet security it humbly blow: 
re: purple head to deck ‘the green. 
This flower, (as nature’s poet sweetly s ings,) 
Was once milk-white, and Heart’s Ease was its name, 
Till wanton Cupid poised his roseate wings 
A vestal’s sacred bosom to inflame 
With treacherous aim the god his arrow Pies 
Which she with oy 
did repe 
ence, with feather opel it flew, 
Till on: this lovely. flow’r ot last it fell, ; 
Heart’s Ease no the wand’, oa a ade found, 
No more the wna its snowy form possess— 
Its white now changed to purple, by Love’s wound, 
Heart’s Ease no more, ’tis “ Love in Idleness.’ 
Mrs. “a B. Sheridan. 
. haithjo, a field.—Ger. heide, a solita: 
piste tae ae ee Skinner derives 4 
ves Heath, 
30 
m the Gr. a In districts where 
ITHO, Lat. ardeo, to burn. 
wood is sca el. 
rce it is used for fu 
and the. southern parts ~ Our 
eee furnished with Sicneal specimens from the country 
around the Cape = Good 
whole genus is ied generally of an 
wth. thet leaves are narro ope m9 “yen or whorled— 
the Maaitaaecs roti ed flowers, partake “of ost fer anc 
tints of red, yellow, purple, orange, 
with green, or vy white some entirely white. 
It is so unsocial in \ its habits 
tion 
bear it company. ne dl the — Pir, which grow a almost i in 
any soil, meagre fare, as sustains the 
erica in its solitude, 
all partici pa 
Ls 
Say, from whence 
ae 
oon this blasted he eath, bhi 1 stop our way 
With such prophetic sis ing. 
eeming propert: 
Shaks. Macbeth. 
es are, its coverin; 
even of royalty itself. The lovely maid of the highlands thus 
id th t Fitz-James— 
“Nor think you unexpected come 
To yon lone isle, our desert home; 
Before ie heath hi ad Le st cen dew, 
This mo: pull’d for you.” 
And when ‘ihc Bee re i her father’s hall, 
through the vine-mantled por ich 
* Wither’d A and eon ey 
Supplied a si canopy.” 
“ And every courteous rite was paid, that hospitality could 
claim.” 
** The stranger’s bed 
Was there of mountain heather “porn, 
sipmesotn oft an h 
d dream’d their forest t sports 802% 
But sr did the heath-flower shed 
oorland fragrance round his head; 
ph t Ellen’s spell had lull’d to rest 
The fever of his troubled breast.’? 
n the same beautiful poem, young Norman, a of Arman- 
ne, x hurried from 
his lovely bri e, by a courier, who meets wry at “ss —s 
yard gate, van a summons that could not brook del: 
trustin 
e he ath 
Where Lubnaig’s lake meoune the Teith.” 
fi t he glane’d a belated mou ie high resolve 
and foctiing wi strong—Burst into yoluntary son 
“The heath this night must be i bed, 
The bracken* curtain for my 
Ican with difficulty restrain my pen—the whole song has 
such touching pathos. 
