134 FLORA’S DIAL. 
(October 5. 
TURNIP. — Charity. 
Follow every voice of mercy, 
With a trusting, loving heart; 
And in all life’s earnest labor, 
Be thou sure to do thy part. 
Now, to-day, and not tomorrow, 
Work, oh work, with all thy might! 
Lest the wretched faint and perish 
In the coming stormy night. 
Rev. T. B. Thayer. 
©rtober 6. 
TUBEROSE. — Voluptuousness. 
Her eyes possess a language and a spell; 
A form like Aphrodite’s in her shell, 
With all her loves around her on the deep, 
Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep, 
Vet full of life, — for through her tropic cheek 
The blush will make its way, and all but speak, 
Like coral reddening through the darkened wave 
Which draws the diver to its crimson cave. 
Byron. 
