


HYACINTH. 

No, no; this sorrow, shown 
By your tears shed, 
Would have this lecture read : 
That things of greatest, so of meanest worth, 
Conceived with grief are, and with tears brought forth. 







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A BOUQUET. 
M. E. LEE. 





PRIMROSES, 
Which when the shadows fall 
Like soft dreams o’er the earth, 
And all around a Sabbath reigns 
As at Creation’s birth, 
Burst the magic bonds of clay, 
And greet with smiles the sun’s last ray. 





HYACINTH. é 
PURPLE HYACINTH. 




(Sorrow—Play. ) 
A CCORDING to the mythologists, this fairy-like 
fragile flower had its origin in the death of 
Hyacinthus, a Spartan youth, greatly favored by 
Apollo. He fell a victim to the jealous rage of 
Zephyrus, who, in revenge for the preference mani- 
fested for him by the Sun-god, had determined to 
effect his destruction. Accordingly, one day when 




















