ENCHANTMENT. 
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Nymphsea Lotus. This flower closes at 
evening, and reclines on the bosom of the 
lake, from the setting of the sun, until the 
rising of that splendid orb on the succeeding 
morn. Flowers of the lotus are inwoven in 
the head-dress of Osiris. The Indian gods 
also are frequently represented on the waters 
as seated on this flower ! it is supposed that 
this allegory may be understood as an allu¬ 
sion to the fable of the world rising from the 
midst of the waters. 
ENCHANTMENT. 
VERVAIN. 
She niglit-shade strows to work him ill, 
Therewith the vervain and her dill, 
That hindereth witches of their will. 
DRAYTON. 
It were well if botanists would attach a 
moral idea to every plant they describe ; we 
might then have an universal dictionary of the 
Sentiment of Flowers-generally understood, 
—which would he handed down from age^ to 
age, and might he renewed, without changing 
their characters every succeeding spring. 
The altars of Jupiter are overthrown; those 
ancient forests, that witnessed the mysteries of 
Druidism, exist no longer; and the pyramids 
of Egypt shall one day disappear, buried, like 
