508 BIRTH-DAY FLOWERS. 

When fast you see around you fall 
The Summer’s leafy pride, 
And mark the river hurrying on 
Its ne’er returning tide ; 
- Then may you feel in pensive mood 
That life’s a Summer dream ; 
And man, at last, forgotten falls— 
A leaf upon the stream. 






Hirth-Day Flowers, 
Anon. 
Ge whisper to the gentle one 
All that our hearts would say, 
Ye emblems of the fondest hopes 
That crown her life to-day ! 
Tell her, pale Lily, as thy leaves 
Benign protection yield, | a 
So would our love around her cast T 
A broad and silent shield. The wi 
Like 
Breathe prophecies of happy years, Tis te 
Thou sweet and blushing Rose— Tha 
Years fragrant with as pure delight Yet w 
As from the chalice flows. Tha, 


