POETRY OF FLOWERS. 141 
LILAC. 
Syringa . Class 2 ; Order 1 
FIRST EMOTION OF LOYE.-FASTIDIOUSNESS. 
How sweet and rapturous ’tis to feel 
Ourselves exalted in a lovely soul!— 
To know our joys make glow another’s cheek, 
Our fears do tremble in another’s heart, 
Our sufferings bedew another’s eye ! 
Schiller. 
As the little floweret hideth 
By the woodland stream, 
So in youthful hearts abideth 
Love’s first witching dream. 
Miss J. A. Fletcher. 
This attractive and yet unobtrusive flower is 
well worthy of being selected to emblemize 
love’s first emotions. Bursting into a profusion 
of fragrant bouquet-shaped blossoms just at that 
delightful season of the year when all nature, 
aroused from its long wintry slumber, decks 
itself Avith smiles and blushes, the Lilac could 
scarcely escape being chosen by the observant 
eyes of poet and lover as a symbol of those in 
describable feelings of joy which bloom into 
being when “ Love’s young dream” first bash¬ 
fully manifests itself. 
