ENCHANTMENT. 91 
phea Lotus. This flower closes at evening, 
and reclines on the bosom of the lake, from 
the setting of the sun, until the rising of that 
splendid orb on the succeeding morn. Flowers 
of the lotus are inwoven in the head-dress of 
Osiris. The Indian gods also are frequently 
represented on the waters as seated on this 
flower! it is supposed that this allegory may 
be understood as an allusion to the fable of 
the world rising from the midst of the waters. 
ENCHANTMENT. 
VERVAIN. 
She night-shade strows to work him ill, 
Therewith the vervain and her dill, 
That hindereth witches of their will. 
DRAYTON. 
Ir were well if botanists would attach a 
moral idea to every plant they describe; we 
might then have an universal dictionary of the 
Sentiment of Flowers—generally understood,— 
which would be handed down from age to age, 
and might be renewed, without changing their 
characters every succeeding spring. 
The altars of Jupiter are overthrown ; those 
ancient forests, that witnessed the mysteries 
of Druidism, exist no longer; and the pyra- 








