. ► Primrose. — /©arcb 7tb — Early Youth. < ► 
A SWEET yellow primrose 
On March ope’d her een, 
Like wee starries of gowd 
In a bricht clud o’ green. 
H. MacDonald. 
Qum Cistus. — 8tb — I shall die to-morrow. 
Flower, thou seem’st not bom to die, 
With thy radiant purity. 
But to melt in air away. 
Mingling with the soft .spring day. 
Airs. He mans. 
Birch. — 9tb — Meekness. 
Sweet is the birk, wi’ its mantle o' green. | 
'I dnnahill. i 
Heath. — lOtb — Solitude. \ 
The purple heath and golden broom i 
On moory mountains catch the gale ; 
O’er lawns the lily sheds perfume, i 
The violet in the vale .—James Montgomery. ^ 
j 
Bindweed. — lUb — Humility. | 
Lo ! the blue bindweed doth itself enfold I 
With honeysuckle, and both these entwine j 
Themselves with briony and jes.samine, ! 
To cast a kind and odoriferous shade. j 
Ben Jons on. ; 
Amaryllis. — I2tb — Pride, Haughtiness. i 
When amaryllis fair doth show the richness of her 
fiery glow, 
The modest lily hides her head ; the former .seems so 
proudly spread 
To win the gaze of human eye. 
O’ 
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