
SORROWFUL REMEMBRANCES,. 261 
often seen at the four corners of a perfect 
square. The Greeks, who had true concep- 
tions of the beautiful in nature, were affected 
like ourselves by the sorrowful aspect of this 
tree, and imagined that the unfortunate Smilax, 
when rejected by young Crocus, was changed 
into a yew. 
Nature presents us among plants with corals 
for our infancy, crowns for our youth, and 
valuable fruits for every age. Are we melan- 
choly? The murmuring willow affords us 
sympathy. Do we love? The myrtle offers 
up its flowers. Are we wealthy ? The chestnut 
yields us its luxuriant and pompous shade. 
And if we are sorrowful the yew scems to 
address us thus: “‘ Fly sorrow! it cankers the 
heart as I exhaust the earth that affords me 
nourishment. Sorrow is as dangerous to man 
as my shadow is to the traveller! ”’ 
wannarnnna 
SORROWFUL REMEMBRANCES. 
PHEASANT’S EYE; OR FLOS ADONIS. 
Look, in the garden blooms the flos adonis, 
And memory keeps of him who rashly died, 
Thereafter changed by Venus, weeping, to this flower. 
ANON. 
Avonis was killed by a boar when hunting. 
Venus, who had quitted the pleasures of Cy- 




















































