flora’s dial. 137 
(October 12. 
ROSE MUNDI. — You are Merry. 
Lady ! the clouds of sorrow and pain. 
Have not made thy bright eyes wet ; 
The bitter cup that we all must drain 
Has not touched thy sweet lips yet. 
Beauty looks forth from thy rounded cheek, 
Like love from a rose’s breast ; 
Thy brow, like a snow-drop, pure and meek, — 
Thy voice, like a song at rest 
H. J. H. 
(October 18. 
BEEP RED ROSE. — Shame. 
Sprinkle sweet blossoms o’er her 
Low and quiet grave ! 
She was aye a gentle flower, — 
Do not let a willow bower 
O’er her ashes wave ! 
Away from earth’s cold tempests, 
She ’s joined the angel-band ! 
No more she walks life’s desert moors, — 
She treads the distant, smiling shores, — 
The shores of the Spirit Land. J. W. H. 
