OCTOBER 10 
Sassofras—.. Favour. 
’Tis ever thus when favours are denied : 
All had been granted but the thing we beg, 
And still some great unlikely substitute, 
Your life, your souls, your all of earthly good, 
Is proffer’d in the room of one small boon. 
jJ OH ANNA J3 AILLIE, 
. OCTOBER 11 ---- 
Sensitive Plant (Mimosa). Bashful modesty . 
So bright the tear in beauty’s eye, 
Love half regrets to kiss it dry; 
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, 
E’en pity scarce can wish it less. 
Pyroh. 
OCTOBER 12 ..- 
Shamrock . Light-hearledness. 
Whom call we gay! That honour has been long 
The boast of mere pretenders to the name. 
The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, 
That dries his feathers saturate with dew 
Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beam 
Of day-spring overshoot his humble nest. 
COWPER, 
