THE FLORAL GIFT. 47 
FLOWERING REED. 
Canna Indica, —Class 1, Order 1. 
A tropical plant, with broad leaves, and a spike of scarlet 
flowers; East Indies. 
CONFIDENCE IN HEAVEN* 
When memory paints with pencil blue, 
The scenes where youth delighted roved, 
She throws o’er none so sweet a hue 
As robes the home of her I loved. 
Each tree, each flower that flourished there, 
In former beauty seems to vvave; 
I seem to breathe my native air, 
’Mid friends who’re sleeping in the grave. 
But soon their shades of joy depart, 
And present sorrows start to view—■ 
Memory, like hope, still mocks the heart 
With visions sweet—but fleeting too. 
But faith points out yon radiant Heaven, 
And bids the mourner not despair, 
Whispering, afflictions are but given, 
Like angel-wings, to waft us there ! 
