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FLOWER EMBLEMS. 
c-a-t, dog battle, which meets teacher and scholar at the entrance to the 
fields of literature, having been too much for that wilful little spirit of 
hers. And on my coming, with a heavy heart, to release her at the end 
of half-an-hour, and to wipe away tears of penitence from the blue eyes 
already mentioned, I was greeted with a joyous ‘ 0 mamma, do look 
here! there’s two darling little spiders that have made a web ; and 
there’s a wee wee fly nearly caught in it; and they want to catch it, 
and I’m waiting to see if they will! ’ And what was I to say P 
Copsley Annals. 
yapWELCOME, wild harbinger of Spring ! 
||MI To this small nook of earth; 
Feeling and fancy fondly cling 
Round thoughts which owe their birth 
To thee, and to the humble spot 
Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. 
To thee, for thy rich golden bloom, 
Like heaven’s fair bow on high, 
Portends, amid surrounding gloom, 
That brighter hours draw nigh, 
When blossoms of more varied dyes 
Shall ope their tints to warmer skies. 
Yet not the lily or the rose, 
Though fairer far they be, 
Can more delightful thoughts disclose 
Than I derive from thee: 
The eye their beauty may prefer, 
The heart is thy interpreter ! 
