30 TABLES OF FLORA. 
TIIE EVENING PRIMROSE. 
This delicate, sweet-scented blossom opens 
only in the evening. The poet Keats has well 
described the sudden expansion of its flowers. 
‘ A tuft of Evening Primroses , 
O'er which the wind may hover till it dozes; 
O’er which it well might take a pleasant sleep, 
Put that't is ever startled by the leap 
Of buds into ripe flowers.’ 
It is esteemed the emblem of inconstancy. 
FABLE X. 
The Evening Primrose. 
There are that love the shades of life, 
And shun the splendid walks of fame ; 
There are that hold it rueful strife 
To risk Ambition’s losing game ; 
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That, far from Envy’s lurid eye, 
The fairest fruits of Genius rear; 
Content to see them bloom and die 
In Friendship’s small but genial sphere. 
