—a? 
85 
% 
THE FLORAL GIFT 
MONKSHOOD. 
Aconitum JVapellus ,—Class 13, Order 2. 
A handsome but poisonous plant, with dark-blue blossoms, 
from Europe. 
DECEIT. 
You give your cheeks a rosy stain, 
With washes die your hair, 
But paint and washes both are vain, 
To give a youthful air. 
Those wrinkles mock your daily toil, 
No labor will efface ’em, 
You wear a mask of smoothest oil, 
Yet still with ease we trace ’em. 
An art so fruitless, then, forsake, 
Which though you much excell in, 
You never can contrive to make, 
Old Hecuba young Helen. 
Cowper. 
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