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My ii The following beautiful lines are by Mrs. 
i ill Hemans. They celebrate the far-famed dial of 
il flowers constructed by Linneus. 
} i ’T was a lovely thought to mark the hours, 
| As they floated in light away, 
By the opening and the folding flowers, 
That laugh to the summer’s day. 
Thus had each moment its own rich hue, 
And its graceful cup and bell, 
In whose coloured vase might sleep the dew, 
Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. 
To such sweet signs might the time have flowed 

In a golden current on, 
HII Ere from the garden, man’s first abode, 
Hill The glorious guests were gone. 
So might the days have been brightly told— 
Those days of song and dreams,— 
When shepherds gathered their flocks of old, 
By the blue Arcadian streams. 
So in those isles of delight, that rest 
Far off in a breezeless main, 
Which many a bark, with a weary quest, 
Has sought, but still in vain, 


