POETKY OF FLOWERS. 131 
PEA, SWEET. 
Lathyrus, odoratus . . . Class 17: Order 4. 
Very beautiful, and possessing much of the fragrance 
of the pink. The flowers are variegated with blue, 
lilac, rose, white, Ac., all in the same flower. Stalks 
two-flowered. 
DEPARTURE. 
Unnoticed fell the sere and yellow leaf, 
Unheeded swept the morning breezes by; 
The fading flowers awoke no throb of grief, 
There was no sadness in the wind’s low sigh; 
Could gloom or sorrow cloud the dying year, 
When thou, the summer of my heart, wert near? 
One hour hath passed—and o’er the deep blue sky, 
A dimness hangs, whose chill is in my heart; 
The wind with funeral moans goes sweeping by, 
And asks in every whisper where thou art; 
The sunshine hath gone with thee and the flowers 
And frost hath chained the fairy-footed hours. 
“Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, 
With wings of gentle flush or delicate white, 
And taper fingers, catching at all things, 
To bind them all about with tiny ring3.” 
Keats. 
