202 gUterUan Starfoort. 
American Starwort. ...Welcome. 
The Starwort is another late-blooming flower. It is 
exclusively indigenous to North America and the Cape 
of Good Hope. The flowers are of every variety of hue, 
and present a very attractive appearance. 
Stranger, new flowers in our vales are seen, 
With a dazzling eye, and a lovely green.— 
They scent the breath of the dewy morn: 
They feed no worm, and they hide no thorn, 
But revel and grow in our balmy air ; 
They are flowers which Freedom hath planted there. 
This bud of welcome to thee we give,— 
Bid its unborn sweets in thy bosom live; 
It shall charm thee from all a stranger’s pain, 
Reserve, suspicion, and dark disdain: 
A race in its freshness and bloom are we; 
Bring no cares from a worn-out world with thee. 
Mrs. Sigourney. 
