Patience Dock. 
In olden times an herb medicinal 
Used as a table esculent withal; 
So patience to the miud as d-iily food, 
Or medicine in disease, alike is good. 
Olive. 
When v’er the waste of waters dark. 
The dove returned unto the ark, 
The patriarch marked the Olive leaf it bore. 
And hailed the messenger of Peace, 
“ Soon," said he, “ shall the waters cease, 
The righteous anger of the Lord is o’er," 
Cowslip. 
Milton, the bard of Paradise, has saia, 
These “ Cowslips wan, that hang the pensive nead 
And hence no fitter emblem may we find. 
For one that unto pensiveness inclined. 
Perfection, Strawberry. 
Fragrant, if small, and pleasant to the taste. 
Agreeable alike in form and hue; 
With nought unwholsomc, nought that seems mis¬ 
placed. 
Perfection in the Strawberry we view. 
