DROPS FROM FLORA'S CUP. 93 
VIOLETS. 
BARTON. 
Beautiful are 3 r ou in your lowliness; 
Bright in your hues, delicious in your scent; 
Lovely your modest blossoms, downward bent, 
As shrinking from our gaze, yet prompt to bless 
The passer-by with fragrance, and express 
How gracefully, though mutely eloquent, 
Are unobtrusive worth and meek content, 
Rejoicing in their own obscure recess. 
Delightful flowerets! at the veico of spring 
Your buds unfolded to its sunbeams bright; 
And though your blossoms soon shall fade from 
sight, 
Above your lowly birthplace birds shall sing, 
And from your clustering leaves the glowworm 
fling 
The emerald glory of its earthbom light. 
