76 • THE POETRY OF FLOWERS 
But if hearts that feel and eyes that smile, 
Are the dearest joys that Heaven supplies, 
We never need leave our own green isle, 
For sensitive hearts and for sunbright eyes. 
Moore. 
♦ ENVY. 
BRAMBLE. 
The bramble is made the emblem of envy because it interferes 
so much with the growth of other plants. 
Oh! she’s a monster — made of contradictions! 
Let Truth in all her native charms appear, 
And, with the voice of harmony itself, 
Plead the just cause of innocence traduced; 
Deaf as the adder — blind as upstart greatness — 
She sees nor hears! And yet let Slander whisper, 
Rumour has fewer tongues than she has ears; 
And Argus’s hundred eyes are dim and slow 
To piercing Jealousy’s. 
Lillo. 
I know that Slander loves a lofty mark; 
It saw her soar a flight above her fellows, 
And hurled its arrow to her glorious height, 
To reach her height and bring her to the ground. 
H. More. 
