THE FLORAL GIFT. 75 
LADYS SLIPPER. 
Cypripodium Aeante ,—Class 20, Order 2. 
An humble plant, with two large leaves only, and a large 
pink blossom.—New England. 
CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY. 
Now, out upon this smiling, 
tNo smile shall meet his sight; 
And a word of gay reviling 
Is all he’ll hear to night, 
For he’ll hold my smiles too lightly, 
If he always sees me smile ; 
He’ll think they shine more brightly, 
When I have frowned awhile. 
’Tis not kindness keeps a lover, 
He must feel the chain he wears ; 
All the- sweet enchantment’s over, 
When he has no anxious cares. 
The heart would seem too common, 
If he thought that heart his own ; 
Ah! the empire of a woman 
Is still in the unknown. 
L. E. Landon. 
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