112 LANGUAGE AND 
“ There is a flower, whose modest eye 
Is turned with looks of light and love; 
Who breathes her sweetest, softest sigh, 
Whene’er the sun is bright above. 
“ Let clouds obscure, or darkness veil, 
Her fond idolatry is fled ; 
Her sighs no more their sweets exhale, 
The loving eye is cold and dead. 
“ Canst thou not trace a moral here, 
False flatterer of the prosperous hour ? 
Let but an adverse cloud appear, 
And thou art faithless as the flower.” 
HIBISCUS. 
Hibiscus . Class 16; Order 13. 
A kind of Mallows. Flowers white and purple, or a 
faint straw-color and purple. 
DELICATE BEAUTY. 
Seek for beauty if thou wilt, 
But mark the quality ; not that which shines 
From human face divine, and gains applause 
From gaping starers—that which fools admire, 
And seek no other; but that higher kind 
Which earth not only approbates, but Heaven, 
Pure, bright, celestial!—beauty of the soul— 
Beauty op holiness ! 
J. G. Adams. 
