V 
AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 71 
ELEGANCE. 
ACACIA ROSE. 
Art has produced nothing that may vie in freshness and in 
elegance of appearance with this beautiful flowering shrub; 
its inclining branches — the gayety of its verdure its clusters 
of rose-coloured flowers, like bows of ribands, hung on branches, 
clothed with hairs of a reddish brown, never failed to excite 
admiration, and have combined to render it a proper emblem of 
elegance. Its appearance has been compared to that of an ele¬ 
gant female in her balldress. 
The world has won her — she has learned 
Its measured smile and tread; 
The foot that once the snowflake spurned 
By courtly rule is led; 
And Fashion’s hand has smoothed the fold 
Of that luxuriant hair, 
Where once the tress of glossy gold 
Waved wildly on the air. 
f. s. o. 
Her matchless wealth of beauty beggars all 
Our courtly dames can boasther queenly form, 
Her majesty of mien, would grace a throne. 
f. s. o. 
I shall not soon forget thee, with thy dark and flashing eye, 
And the pretty little haughty head thou earnest so high; 
With thy throat, whose swanlike curve is the loveliest I 
have seen, 
And the spirit and the grace of thy merry maiden-mien. 
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