OCTOBER 16 
Snowdrop Tree . Exhilaration. 
I’d laugh to-day, to-day is brief! 
I would not wait for anything; 
I’d use to-day that cannot last. 
Be glad to-day and sing. 
PHRISTINA p. JIOSSETTI. 
.-.. OCTOBER 17 .-.- 
Southernwood ..; _ Jesting . 
Perhaps the jest that charm’d the sprightly crowd, 
And made the jovial table laugh so loud. 
To some false notion owed its poor pretence. 
fRIOR. 
True wit is nature to advantage dress’d, 
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d; 
Something, whose truth convinced at sight, we find; 
That gives us back the image of our mind. 
Tope. 
.— OCTOBER 18 
Speedwell... Female fidelity. 
I love her for that loving trust 
That makes the one she loves all just, 
And faith that’s blind in loving; 
A love that smiles away all tears, 
And does not look beyond these years, 
To see what love is proving. 
p. p. p. 
