flora’s dial. 89 
June 27. 
SCHINUS. — Marriage. 
Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers, 
We, who improve his golden hours, 
By sweet experience know, 
That marriage, rightly understood, 
Gives to the tender and the good, 
A paradise below. 
Colton. 
June 28. 
SNAPDRAGON. — Indiscretion. 
How often thoughtless acts have severed 
The links of Friendship’s golden chain! 
And when is gone that sweet communion,- 
What can replace its loss again ? 
A careless word, though lightly spoken, 
Has often caused that heart to sigh, 
Which, frail and gentle as a flower. 
With one cold word would fade and die! 
J. L. Ordway. 
