THE WHITE PINK. 203 
for being selected as tlie emblem of “ fair and 
fascinating.” 
ILLUSTRATION OP THE SENTIMENT. 
If you have seen a summer star, 
Liquidly soft and faintly far. 
Beaming a smiling glance on earth, 
As if it watch’d the flowerets’ birth, 
Then you have seen a light less fair 
Than that young maiden’s glances were. 
Dark fell her tresses. You have seen 
A rent-cloud tossing in the air. 
And, showing the pure sky between 
Its floating fragments, here and there. 
Then you may fancy faintly how 
The falling tress, the ring-like curl, 
Disclosed or shadow’d o’er the brow 
And neck of that fair girl; 
Her cheek was delicately thin. 
And, through its pure transparent white, 
The rose-hue wander’d out and in, 
As you have seen the inconstant light 
Flush o’er the northern sky of night. 
