DECEMBER 7 
Water-Lily . Purity of heart. 
Bright Lily of the wave ! 
Rising in fearless grace with every swell. 
Thou seem’st as if a spirit meekly brave 
Dwelt in thy cell. 
What is like thee, fair flower, 
The gentle and the firm ? thus bearing up 
To the blue sky that alabaster cup, 
As to the shower. 
jA NON. 
- DECEMBER 8 .... 
Water-Melon - Bulkiness. 
The world is too much with us; late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: 
Little we see in Nature that is ours; 
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! 
This sea that bears her bosom to the moon ; 
The winds that will be howling at all hours, 
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; 
For this, for everything, we are out of tune; 
It moves us not. 
Wordsworth. 
.... DECEMBER 9 .... 
Wax Plant --- - Susceptibility. 
Win her with gifts, if she respects not words; 
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 
More quick than words do move a woman’s mind. 
(Shakespeare. 
She prizes not such trifles as these are : 
The.gifts she looks from me are packed and locked 
Up in my heart, which I have given already, 
But not delivered. 
(Shakespeare, 
