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flora's dial. 
ittag 11. 
SENSITIVE PLANT. — Bashfuhiess. 
Behold this maiden when she smiles, 
With shy and downcast eyes, 
The light within them rounding, like 
The young moon in its rise. 
Barry Cornwall. 
ittau 12. 
STAR OE BETHLEHEM. — Purity. 
Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, 
Eor that sweet odor which doth in it live. 
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye, 
As the perfumed tincture of the roses, 
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, 
When summer’s breath their masked buds dis- 
closes. 
But for their virtue, only is their show ; 
They live unwooed, and unrespected fade ; 
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; 
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made j 
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth. 
Shakspeare. 
