132 THE FLOWER VASE. 
Antirrhinum. Class 14. — Order 2. 
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The garden Snapdragon is a procumbent plant, with 
purple and yellow flowers. 
You are dazzling, but dangerous. 
I love thee not. I will not lay 
One offering on thy shrine, 
Though others their devotions pay 
As though thou wert divine. 
I love thee not. I know deceit 
And guile are in thy heart, 
That all thy words so soft and sweet, 
Are tricks of woman’s art. 
I love thee not. The simplest mind 
Is dearer far to me, 
(Though far less brilliant and refined,) 
Than ever thine can be! 
