110 THE FLOWER VASE. 
PEA—SWEET. 
Lathyrus odoratus. Class 17. — Order 4. 
Very beautiful, and possessing much of the fragrance of 
the pink. Tlie flowers are variegated with blue, lilac, rose, 
white, etc. 
Departure. 
Unnoticed fell the sere and yellow leaf, 
Unheeded swept the moaning- breezes by; 
The fading flowers awoke no throb of grief, 
There was no sadness in the wind’s low sigh; 
Could gloom or sorrow cloud the dying year, 
When thou , the summer of my heart, wert here? 
One hour hath passed — and o’er the deep blue 
sky 
A dimness hangs, whose chill is in my heart; 
The wind with funeral moans goes sweeping by, 
And asks in every whisper where thou art; 
The sunshine hath gone with thee and the flowers, 
And frost hath chained the fairy-footed hours. 
