AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 115 
I WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU. 
WAX MYRTLE. 
The green berries of the wax myrtle are boiled by the 
country people, and moulded into candles^ which give a re¬ 
markably clear and brilliant light. 
Sweet, let us read our hearts together, 
By the pure, fragrant lamp of Love! 
’T will steadily burn, in stormy weather, 
As now — for it was filled above. 
f. s. o. 
I TRUST IN THEE. 
PERUVIAN HELIOTROPE. 
This evergreen trailer is a native of Peru, and bears beautiful 
lilac-coloured flowers; and, in the greenhouse, continues in bloom 
nearly the whole of the year. 
The Orientals say that the perfumes of the heliotrope elevate 
their souls toward heaven; it is true that they exhilarate us, 
and produce a degree of intoxication. The sensation produced 
by inhaling them, may, it is said, be renewed by imagination, 
even though years have passed away after the reality was ex¬ 
perienced. 
The Countess Eleanora, natural daughter of Christian IV., 
king of Denmark, who became so notorious by the misfortunes, 
crimes, and exile of Count Ulfeld, her husband, offers to us a 
striking proof of the power of perfumes on the memory. This 
