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THE FLORAL GIFT. 
55 
GERANIUM, MOURNING. 
Pelargonium, sp .—Class 16, Order 2. 
Superb green-bouas plants.—Cape of Good Hope. 
DESPONDENCY. 
Alas, how bitter are the wrongs of love! 
Life has no other sorrow so acute: 
For love is made of every fine emotion, 
Of generous impulses, and noble thoughts ; 
Itlooketh to the stars, and dreams of heaven; 
It nestles’mid the flowers,and sweetens earth. 
Love is aspiring, yet is humble too: 
It doth exalt another o’er itself, 
With sweet heart homage, .which delights to 
raise 
That which it worships ; yet is fain to win 
The idol to its lone and lowly home 
Of deep affection. ’Tis an utter wreck, 
When such hopes perish. From that moment, 
life 
Has in its depths a well of bitterness, 
To which there is no healing. 
L. E. London. 
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