THE POETRY OP PROWERS. 
VIOLET, PURPLE. 
Flower of the solitary place 1 
YOU OCCUPY MY THOUGHTS. 
Gray Ruin’s golden crown. 
That lendest melancholy grace 
Thu sun is bright—its golden rays 
Gild mountain-top and flower; 
O'er rock, and wave, and vale it plays. 
To haunts of old renown : 
Thou mantlest o’er the battlement 
By strife or storm decayed ; 
From morn till evening hour. 
But, ah ! no beauty in its beams 
My weary heart can see. 
While rocks, and vales, and glancing streams 
And fillest up each envious rent 
Time’s canker tooth hath made. 
Moiiw 
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Keep me away from thee l 
The waves to others wear a light 
More glorious than the sky ; 
To me earth's hues are only bright 
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WOODRUFF. 
Reflected from thine eye. 
The world may deem me dull and sad— 
1 care not how that be; 
MODEST WORTII. 
I nev^r can nor will be glad. 
My love, away from thee I 
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Tminb excellence is of a rare degree; 
Though praised by others ’tis unknown to thee. 
WALLFLOWER. 
In humble deeds of love and kindly care 
To those who in enrih’s riches own no share ; 
FIDELITY IN’ MISFORTUNE. 
By silent victory over pride and sin ; 
An emblem true thou art 
By faith, and hope, and charity on earth. 
Of love’s enduring lustre, given 
Thou prov’st to others thy transcendent worth; 
To cheer a lonely heart. 
Whilst to thyself thy goodness is unknown— 
Barton. 
Though virtue crowns and claims thee for her own 
