DAZZLING, BUT DANGEROUS. 
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SNAPDRAGON. 
Antirrhinum. 
Language — DAZZLING, BUT DANGEROUS. 
Her brow is white as stainless snow, 
As ebon black her heart of sin; 
Her cheek with morning’s blush cloth glow 
O’er midnight gloom within. Mks . 09 good. 
Ladies, though to your conquering eyes 
Love owes its brightest victories, 
And borrows those bright arms from you 
With which he does the world subdue, 
Yet you yourselves are not above 
The empire nor the griefs of love. 
Then rack not lovers with disdain, 
Lest love on you revenge their pain. 
You are not free because you’re fair ; 
The boy did not his mother spare ; 
Though beauty be a killing dart, 
It is no armor for the heart. 
Sir George Ethereqr. 
If all the world and love were young, 
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, 
These pleasures might my passions move 
To live with thee and be thy love. 
So fading flowers in every field 
To winter floods their treasures yield ; 
A honeyed tongue, a heart of gall, 
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall. 
Sir Walter Raleigh. 
