flora’s dial. 89 
Suite 27. 
SCHINUS. — Marriage . 
Though fools spurn Hymen’s gehtle powers, 
We, who improve his golden hours, 
By sweet experience know, 
That marriage, rightly understood, 
Gives to the tender and the good, 
A paradise below. 
Colton. 
Suite 28 . 
SNAPDRAGON. — Indiscretion, 
How often thoughtless acts have severed 
The links of Eriendship’s golden chain ! 
And when is gone that sweet communion. 
What can replace its loss again ? 
A careless word, though lightly spoken, 
Has often caused that heart to sigh, 
Which, frail and gentle as a flower. 
With one cold word would fade and die ! 
g J. L. Ordway. 
