AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 
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THINK OF ME. 
PANSV, on heakt’s-ease. 
-pray you, love, remember, 
There’s pansies —that’s for thoughts. 
Shaksfeare. 
The teints of this flower are scarce less varied than the 
names that have been bestOAved upon it. That of pansy is a 
corruption of the French name, pensee, thought. 
Leigh Hunt introduces the heart’s-ease into his verses: — 
The garden’s gem, 
Heart’s-ease, like a gallant bold, 
In his cloth of purple and gold. 
Phillips observes that the most brilliant purples of the artist 
appear dull when compared to that of the pansy; our richest 
satins and velvets coarse and unsightly by a comparison of tex¬ 
ture; and, as to delicacy of shading, it is scarcely surpassed by 
the bow of Iris itself. 
Oh ! long may the blossom, Avhatever betide, 
The tenderest breath of the summer-wind win, 
And smile in its beauty, thy threshold beside, 
Bright symbol, sweet lady, of heart’s-ease within! 
f. s. o. 
