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THE FLOKAL GIFT. 
CARNATION. 
Vianthus Caryop/iylus ,—Class 10, Order 2. 
A magnificent and very fragrant garden flower 
PRIDE. 
It is a blessed impulse, wrought 
Within us by the glorious thought, 
That tells in moments free from sin, 
Our high and star-twin’d origin. 
They call it wrong, unholy, vain— 
The struggle of a soul insane ! 
It is not vain, the Pride, that thrills 
Our sprits, nerving them to ills; 
The pride that bears us through the world, 
With tranquil brow and lip uncurled, 
And an undying trust within, 
A glimpse of glory yet to be— 
An Eden hope, that charms from sin, 
And smiles along life’s stormy sea. 
Mrs. Osgood. 
