TIIE PURPLE HYACINTH. 
Botanical Name, Hyacinthus Orientalis. —Class, Uexan- 
clria. —Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, purple .—Native 
place, Levant. 
■Sentiment. 
S 0 E E O W. 
ORIGIN OP 1 THE SENTIMENT. 
The poets have dedicated this dower to sor¬ 
row, and the ancients justify the selection. 
Pcrcival has sung— 
“ The deep blue tincture that robed it, seem’d 
The gloomiest garb of sorrow, 
As if in its eye no brightness beam’d, 
And it never, in clearer moments, dream’d 
Of a fair and calm to-morrow.” 
