






THE BOUQUET. 

PANSY, 
VIOLA TRICOLOR. 
Tender and pleasant thoughts. 
Mosz strangely true and beautiful hath esTrown 
The fancy of that line, ‘ Pansies for thoughts ;? 
And thought is changeful ever. So are now 
The fair Ophelia’s token-flowers more fit 
To be its emblems ; for their varying hues, 
Like thoughts diversified with bright, and deep, 
And gay, and sombre tints, mirror the mind 
In every changeful mood; some robe them 
In milk-white garb; and these are maiden 
thoughts ; 
Then, purpled with love’s wound, they °re pen- 
cilled o’er 
With richer beauty ; and fantastic oft, 
And fleeting, too, are these love marks, I ween. 
O! are not pansies emblems meet for thoughts? 
The pure, the checkered, gay, and deep, by turns ; 
A hue for every mood the bright things wear, 
In their bright velvet coats. And let his name, 
Who thus entwined them in immortal song, 
Be ever honored when they meet our gaze, 
And bring, as though ’t were writ upon their 
leaves, 

