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Cowslip. ...Pensiveness. 
The solitary Cowslip was known to the old English 
poets as the “sweet nun of the fields,” and has been 
immortalized in “ Shakspeare’s Midsummer Night’s 
Dream.” In America, the Cowslip may be found from 
Maine to Missouri. Its hues are not gaudy,* but win¬ 
ning; and the whole appearance of the flower, as it 
blooms in some solitary vale, or on some gentle slope, 
expresses the idea of pensive beauty. 
The rose its blushes need not lend, 
Nor yet the lily with them blend, 
To captivate my eyes: 
Give me a cheek the heart obeys, 
And, sweetly mutable, displays 
Its feelings as they rise; 
Features, where pensive, more than gay. 
Save when a rising smile doth play, 
The sober thoughts you see; 
Eyes that all soft and tender seem, 
And kind affections round them beam, ' 
But most of all on me. 
Frisbie. 
There is a mood, 
(I sing not to the vacant and the young,) 
There is a kindly mood of melancholy 
That wings the soul, and points her to the skies. 
Dyer 
