AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 
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ERROR. 
BEE-OPHRYS. 
This plant is singularly beautiful in its appearance, and its 
dowers so much resemble the bee, that it is frequently mistaken 
for one resting on the plant. It commonly grows near woods, 
and in the open meadows. The most successful method of cul¬ 
tivation is by choosing a soil and situation as natural to them 
as possible, and by suffering the grass to grow around them. 
A spirit pure as hers, 
Is always pure even while it errs — 
As sunshine, broken in the rill, 
Though turned astray, is sunshine still ! 
Moore. 
The lover may 
Distrust that look which steals his soul away; — 
The babe may cease to think that it can play 
With heaven’s rainbow; alchymists may doubt 
The shining gold their crucible gives out; — 
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast 
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. 
Moore. 
