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flora’s dial. 
iltai] 11. 
SENSITIVE PLANT. — Bashfulness. 
Behold this maiden when she smiles, 
With shy and downcast eyes, 
The light within them rounding, like 
The youhg moon in its rise. 
Barry Cornwall. 
iEaij 12. 
STAR OE BETHLEHEM. — Purity. 
Oh, how mu%h more doth heauty beauteous seem 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! 
The rose looks fair, hut fairer we it deem, 
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 
I The canker blooms have full as deep a dye, 
As the perfumed tincture of the roses, 
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, 
When summer’s breath their masked buds dis¬ 
closes. 
But for their virtue, only is their show; 
They live unwooed, and unrespected fade ; 
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; 
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made ; 
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth. 
Shakspeare. 
