224 THE POETRY OF FLOWERS 
The blossom that bashfully shuns the daylight, 
And yields all its sweetness and bloom unto night. 
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THANKFULNESS. 
AGRIMONY. 
Agrimony is a pretty species of campanula, whose flowers 
of the most delicate lilac colour are suspended from the plant 
like little bells. The French commonly call it “Religieuse des 
Champsand Madame de Chastenay says, in her Calendar of 
Flora: “ It is suspected that this has been called agrimony 
from the resemblance of its flowers to the hermit’s hell. For 
my own part I think that gratitude has given it the name of 
‘ Religieuse des Champs,’ in honour, probably, of some kind, 
tender, and beneficent Sister of Charity.” 
And the nuns used to dream, as they roamed about 
The convent-garden of St. Ursula, 
That, at matins and vespers, a peal rang out, 
From the fairy bells of the campanula. 
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