Durability, Dog-wood. 
Deep rooted, the enduring-Cornel stood, 
Though old, the soundest tree of all the wood. 
Deceitful Charms, Thom Apple. 
Stramonium, which opens to the night 
Thy purple bells, and dost the sense invite, 
T’ inhale thy poison scent; deceit and thee, 
Methinks, with justice might affianced be. 
Do me justice, Chestnut Tree. 
Uninviting may appear 
The green and prickly shrubs I bear ; 
Yet, within, good nuts you’ll find : 
Keep this moral e’er in mind,— 
Judge not by the outward view. 
Lest you justice fail to do. 
Early Youth, Primrose, 
Primrose, thou, as all aver, 
Art the springtime’s harbinger ; 
Freshness and fragrance are, in sooth, 
Thine, thou art like early youth. 
Egotism, Narcissus. 
Fair egotist, thou bendest o’er the stream. 
As thou wouldst there thy mirrored self caress 
Tbou art like one lost wholly in a dream 
Of beauty, and of speechless happiness. 
