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THE FLORAL GIFT. 
THORN APPLE. 
Datura Stramonium ,—Class 5, Order 1. 
A rank poisonous-seeded plant, with large blue flowers, 
introduced from India. 
DECEITFUL CHARMS. 
So shall I live supposing thou art true, 
Like a deceived husband ; so love’s face 
May still seem love to me though altered new, 
Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: 
For there can live no hatred in thine eye— 
Therefore, in that I cannot know thy change, j 
In many looks the false heart’s history 
Is writ, in moods and frowns and wrinkles : 
strange: 
But Heaven in thy creation did decree, 
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell, j 
Whate’er thy thoughts, or thy heart’s work- j 
ings be, 
Thy looks should nothing else but sw r eetness 
tell: 
How like Eve’s apple doth thy beauty grow, 
If thy sweet virtue answer not the show. 
Shakspcai'e. 
