224 THE POETRY OF FLOWERS 
The blossom that bashfully shuns the daylight, 
And yields all its sweetness and bloom unto night. 
f. s. o. 
THANKFULNESS. 
AGKIHONT 
Agrimony is a pretty species of campanula, whose flowers 
of the most delicate lilac colour are suspended from the plant 
like little bells. The French commonly call it “ Religieuse des 
Champsand Madame de Chastenay says, in her Calendar of 
Flora: “ It is suspected that this has been called agrimony 
from the resemblance of its flowers to the hermit’s bell. For 
my own part I think that gratitude has given it the name of 
‘ Religieuse des Champs,’ in honour, probably, of some kind, 
tender, and beneficent Sister of Charity.” 
And the nuns used to dream, as they roamed about 
The convbnt-garden of St. Ursula, 
That, at matins and vespers, a peal rang out, 
hrom the fairy bells of the campanula. 
F. s. o. 
