fables oe flora. 
4 Th« tamarack, here and there rising between, 
Its boughs clothed with rich, starlike fringes of green, 
And clumps of dense Laurels, and brown-headed flags, 
And thick, slimy basins, black dotted with snags.’ 
Alfred B. Street. 
«Tints brighten o’er the velvet moss, 
Gleams twinkle on the Laurel’s gloss.’ 
Ibid. 
4 The Laurel tufts, that drooping hung 
Close rolled around their stems. 
And the sear birch-leaves still that clung, 
Were white with powdering gems.’ 
Ibid. 
The poisonous qualities of the Kalmia, have 
furnished Percival with this simile. 
«And feeds his passion on a wanton’s lip, 
As bees from Laurel flowers a poison sip.’ 
Tiie Deserted Wife. 
FABLE XXIII. 
The Kalmia. 
Of all the flowers that claimed his care, 
The gardener loved the Kalmia best j 
For it had breathed the mountain air, 
And leaned upon the mountain’s breast; 
And he a mountain boy had been, 
Before he knew the wrongs of men. 
