POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
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PASSION FLOWER. 
Passifiora . Class 16 ; Order 2. 
Indigenous to America ; at the South, the dowers are 
bright red; at the North, pale blue, or yellow. 
RELIGIOUS FERVOR. 
How should the soul with adoration glow, 
To that great power, eternal and supreme, 
Who gives us faculties for joy and woe, 
And hope and reason guarding each extreme ! 
Who paints on sorrow’s clouds the rainbow beam 
That cheers our spirits through sad mists of tears, 
And bids the heaven-lit taper brighter gleam 
As down the dark declivity of years 
We seek the better clime, where Truth her temple rears. 
Mrs. Broughton. 
Most of the Passion Flowers are natives of 
South America; and although some of them 
open their starry-leaved blossoms to the less 
glowing sun of these colder climes, it is only in 
the land of their birth they can be seen in all 
their unsurpassed loveliness. 
Those who would view this glorious symbol 
of faithfulness in its unshorn loveliness must 
seek it in the immense forests of Brazil, amid 
all that grandeur “ boundless as our wonder,” of 
which Humboldt has so nobly told. There, in 
that fane, most Catholic and. solemn,” 
“The faint passion flower, the sad and holy, 
Tells of diviner hopes;” 
