OR, LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 243 
ANEMONE_ Forsaken. 
The Anemone, or Wind Flower, is a beautiful 
flower, and a very desirable ornament for garden 
borders. The species are numerous, exhibiting a 
great variety of colours, as crimson, purple, blue, 
white, &c. When the seed is ripe, it is soon driven 
away by the winds, and the stalk is left naked and 
bare. Hence the flower is the symbol of desertion. 
O I have loved thee with all my heart, 
And thought thou wert true to me ; 
Thy professions were great—thy language strong, 
But what carest thou now for me f 
0 cruel to leave me thus forlorn, 
With an aching, broken heart! 
I never once thought thou couldst deceive 
And pierce with perfidious dart. 
But thy words, alas! have been nought but wind, 
Which bloweth and passeth away; 
The Anemone, O thou infidel one, 
Is the symbol of those who betray. 
O think of the evil that thou hast done, 
In wounding my faithful breast; 
No peace can I find by day or by night, 
Till the grave shall be my rest. 
Another thou lovest better than me— 
’Tis this that pierces my heart, 
