THE SNOWDROP. 
Botanical Name, Galanthus nivalis. —Class, Hexandria. 
—Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, pure white .—Native 
place, Europe. 
Sentiment. 
CONSOLATION. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
A child of winter, this sweet flower rises 
from its snowy bed to tell us spring is 
coming; and that, though the song of birds 
is all but mute, though the sun himself seems 
clouded with sorrow, and veils his brilliancy, 
though the hoar-frost displays his mantle all 
around, yet the herald of the spring comes 
to offer you consolation, in the absence 
of spring flowers, and to show you that no 
