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Hyacinth.... Constancy. 
Tue blue Hyacinth is mentioned by several English 
writers as the emblem of constancy. There are many 
varieties found in Europe and America, but the variety 
known in Scotland as the “ Blue Bell” is the most 
common and the most celebrated. 
When daisies blush, and wind-flowers wet with dew, 
When shady lanes with Hyacinth’s are blue, 
When the elm blossoms o’er the brooding bird, 
And, wild and wide, the plover’s wail is heard, 
Where melts the mist on mountains far away, 
Till morn is kindled into brightest day. 
Elliott. 
Then come the wild weather, come sleet, or come snow, 
We will stand by each other however it blow. 
Oppression and sickness, and sorrow, and pain, 
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain. 
Longfellow. 
She loves him yet! 
The flower the false one gave her 
When last he came, 
Is still with her wild tears wet. 
She’ll ne’er forget, 
Howe’er his faith may waver, 
Through grief and shame, 
Believe it,—she loves him yet! 
Mrs. Osgood. 
