iSraaoii plant. 2-2'3 
Dragon Plant.... Pwu are near a snare. 
lie secretly 
Puts pirate's colours out at both our sterns, 
That we might fight each other in mistake, 
That he should share the ruin of us both ! 
down. 
His tongue was soft as velvet leaf, 
His poison-fangs concealing ; 
But where he stung, the festering wound 
Was past the art of healing. 
"Beware of him whose speech is smooth," 
The mother spake her daughter ; 
" The deepest depths are ever found 
"Where flows the smoothest water." 
" His heart is like an angel's heai't," 
The daughter spake her mother ; 
"He seeks to be to thee and me 
A loving son and brother." 
She listened to his guileful tale. 
Nor heeded words of warning ; 
Ah ! bitterly did future pain 
Repay her present scorning. 
For Robin laid his cunning game 
"With art so deep and skilful, 
That gentle Ellen's mind was turned 
To disobedience wilful. 
MacKellar. 
