THE FLOWER VASE. 
PRIMROSE—EVENING. 
CExothera odorata. Class 8. — Order 1. 
This plant is two or three feet high. Flowers pale yel- 
low, and open suddenly. 
X am more faithful than thou. 
Hast forgotten the days, love, the long-vanished 
days. 
When our spirits communed through the bird 
and the flower; 
When the stars linked our thoughts by their glit¬ 
tering rays, 
In a chain that had more than electrical power? 
Those days were the violet blossoms of love — 
Young flowers that have faded and shrunk from 
thy view; 
But though withered, forgotten, to thee they may 
prove, 
They are pressed to one heart ever faithful and 
true. 
