

ANEMONE. 


ANEMONE. 


(Withered Hopes— Forsaken.) 
HIS flower derives its name from anemos, the Greek 
word for wind, from thence came our poetical ap- 
pellation of <‘the wind-flower.” The ancients tell us 
that the Anemone was formerly a nymph beloved by 
Zephyr, and that Flora, jealous of her beauty, banished 
her from her Court, and finally transformed her 
into the flower that now bears her name. The more 
common myth is, that the anemone sprang from the 
blood of Adonis, combined with the tears which Venus 
shed over his body. The Greek poet -Bion, in his “ La- 
ment for Adonis,” says : 







‘‘That wretched queen, Adonis bewailing, 
For every drop of blood lets fall a tear ; 
Two blooming flowers the mingled streams disclose ; 
Anemone the tears ; the blood, a rose.” 








TO THE ANEMONE. 


MISS PRATT. 

FLowers of the wild wood ! your home is there, 
°Mid all that is fragrant, all that is fair ; 
Where the wood-mouse makes his home in the earth ; 
Where gnat and butterfly have their birth ; 
Where leaves are dancing over each flower, 
Fanning it well in the noontide hour, 
And the breath of the wind is murmuring low, 
As branches are bending to and fro. 
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