ANEMONE . 
( Withered Hopes — Forsaken .) 
HIS flower derives its name from anemos , the 
Greek word for wind, from thence came our 
poetical appellation of “ the wind-flower.” The 
ancients tell us that the Anemone was formerly a nymph 
beloved by Zephyr, and that Flora, jealous of her beauty, 
banished her from her Court, and finally transformed her 
into the flower that now bears her name. The more 
common myth is, that the anemone sprang from the 
blood of Adonis, combined with the tears which Venus 
shed over his body. The Greek poet Bion, in his “La¬ 
ment for Adonis,” says : 
“That wretched queen, Adonis bewailing, 
For every drop of blood lets fall a tear; 
Two blooming flowers the mingled streams disclose: 
Anemone the tears; the blood, a rose.” 
TO THE ANEMONE. 
MISS PRATT. 
Flowers of the wild wood ! your home is there, 
’Mid all that is fragrant, all that is fair; 
Where the wood-mouse makes his home in the earth ; 
Where gnat and butterfly have their birth; 
