AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 
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YOU ARE PERFECT. 
PINE-APPLE. 
The fruit of the pine-apple, surrounded by its beautiful leaves, 
and surmounted by a crown in which the germe of a plant is 
concealed, seems as though it were sculptured in massy gold. 
It is so beautiful that it appears to be made to please the eyes; 
so delicious that it unites the various flavours of our best fruits; 
and so odoriferous that we should cultivate it if it were only 
for its perfume. 
Keep, keep the maiden’s dowry, 
Her hand, her heart I claim, 
That little hand is more to me, 
Than power, rank, or fame, 
That heart’s pure love is wealth, my lord, 
No more your coffers name! 
f. s. o. 
YOU ARE DAZZLING BUT DAN¬ 
GEROUS. 
SNAPDRAGON. 
The flowers of the snapdragon are sometimes of so vivid a 
scarlet, that we cannot look upon them with a fixed eye. 
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