AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 
ILLUSTRATION OF PLATE. 
Blue Violet. — Daisy. — Apple-Blossom. 
Your modesty and innocence secure you the preference. 
If regal sceptre, love, were mine; — 
Or I possessed the realms of faery, 
This faithful heart would still be thine, 
My innocent and modest Mary! 
Young Beauty, at my feet threw down 
A rose, with rare and tempting offers; — 
And Rank, unclasped her radiant crown; — 
And Wealth unlocked her loaded coffers: — 
But Beauty’s roses soon must fly; 
And Love with Rank and Wealth is wary; — 
Thy purer charms can never die, 
My innocent and modest Mary! 
F. S. O. 
Q 
