THE POETRY CF FLOWERS. 
Oh! keep the morning of his incarnation, 
The burning noon-tide of his bitter passion. 
The night of his descending, and the height 
Of his ascension,— ever in my sight, 
That, imitating him in what I may, 
I never follow an inferior way. 
THE LILY. 
BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 
The stream with languid murmur creeps 
In Lumin’s flow’ry vale: 
Beneath the dew the lily weeps, 
Slow waving to the gale. 
‘ Cease, restless gale!” it seems to say 
“ Nor wake me with thy sighing! 
The honours of my vernal day 
On rapid wings are flying. 
“ To-morrow shall the traveller come 
Who late beheld me blooming; 
His searching eye shall vainly roam 
The dreary vale a:’ Lumin.” 
