flora’s album. 31 
Clematis, English. 
A vine, bearing white and pale-blue flowers. 
TRAVELER’S JOY. 
In the depths of the desert, when lonely and drear, 
The sands round the desolate traveler appear, 
The splendor of day gives no aid to his path, 
Eor landmark nor compass the traveler hath: 
But when night sheds her shadow and coolness 
around. 
Then hark! how the hells of the camel resound! 
Eor the traveler is up when the star sheds its ray; 
’T is the light of his hope, ’t is the guide of his way. 
And what is this world, hut a wilderness vast ? 
Where few leave a trace o’er the waste they have 
passed; 
And many are lost in their noonday of pride, 
That shines forth to dazzle, hut seldom to guide. 
Oh! hlest is the fete of the one who hath found 
Some ioadstar to guide through the wilderness 
round; 
And such I have found, my beloved one, in thee; 
Eor thou art the star of the desert to me. 
Samuel Loveu. 
