FLORA’S DIAL. 101 
lull] 25. 
LILAC. — First emotions of Love. 
When first thou earnest, gentle, shy and fond, 
My purest, first-born love, and dearest treasure, 
My heart received thee with a joy beyond 
All that it yet had felt of earthly pleasure; 
Nor thought that any love again might be 
So deep and strong, as that I felt for thee. 
Mrs. Norton. 
Inin 25. 
MAGNOLIA. — You are a Lover of Nature 
How sweetly bland do Nature’s gentle fingers 
Lift from my brow the damp and sickly hair, 
And fan the faint fire with her cheerful air 
That in my feeble dim eyes scarcely lingers. 
Oh! who these sweet and heaven-like retreats, 
Would give for hot, and dry, and dusty streets ? 
Where squalid Want doth reach her skinny hand, 
And Crime sits leering in ungodly glee, 
And keen Fraud in the market-place doth stand, 
And Sin and Wrong conspire, to crush sick 
Poverty I J. W. H. 
