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76 THE FLORAL GIFT 
LARKSPUR. 
Delphinium Ajacis ,—Class 13, Order 2. 
A beautiful garden plant, with rosy, white, blue, or purple 
blossoms in dense-spikea.—Levant. 
Why should we grieve when trouble lowers, 
And steep our days in wo ? 
Ah, rather gaily pass life’s hours, 
In pleasures as they flow ! 
Oh not one tear, shall dim my eye, 
Though life be fraught with pain ! 
I’ll bid the past, a kind “ Good bye!” 
And try my luck again ! 
I’ll court dame Fortune’s soft caress, 
Each flattering lure display ; 
And if my votive prayer she bless, 
I’ll dance life’s hours away. 
But if she do not smile on me, 
And all my prayers are vain— 
I’ll laugh, and quaff, in merry glee, 
And—try iny luck again! 
H. Fi Harrington. 
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