168 flora’s dial. 
^December 17 . 
CHAMOMILE. — Love in Adversity. 
When sailing o’er Life’s solemn sea, 
Bereft of Hope’s fair company, — 
When midnight darkness wraps the soul, 
And o’er the head harsh thunders roll; 
’T is bliss to think of one fond heart 
That bids for us the tear-drop start, 
And who, with us, though all forsake, 
Will share our joys and woes, — or break! 
J. W. H. 
^December IS- 
CEDAB. OF LEBANON. — Incorruptibility. 
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, 
That when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lackey her, 
Driving far off each thing of guilt and sin ; 
Till oft converse with heavenly habitants, 
Begins to cast a beam on the outward shape, 
The unpolluted temple of the mind, 
And turns it by degrees to the soul’s essence 
Till all is incorruptible. Shakspeare. 
