SNAPDRAGON. Antirrhinum. LANGUAGE-DAZZLING, BUT DANGEROUS. HER brow is white as stainless snow, Her cheek with morning's blush doth glow MRS. OSGOOD. Ladies, though to your conquering eyes SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE. If all the world and love were young, SIR WALTER RALEIGH. SNOWDROP. Galanthus Nivalis. LANGUAGE-HOPE IN SORROW. LET us hope for brighter days; To our hearts so cold and chill. Let us hope for brighter days; When the storm has hurried past: In the darkest hour of need. The night is mother of the day, And ever upon old decay The greenest mosses cling. Behind the cloud the starlight lurks; Has left his hopes with all. ANON. LANGUAGE SNOWBALL. Viburnum Opulus. THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN. WHAT dost thou, O, wandering dove, From thy home on the rock's riven breast? "Tis fair, but the falcon is wheeling above: O, fly to thy sheltering nest; To thy nest, wandering dove, to thy nest. Frail bark, on that bright summer sea, That the breezes now curl but in sport, Spread cheerly thy sail, for though pleasant it be, Ne'er linger till safe in the port; To the port, little bark, to the port. Tired roe, that the hunter dost flee, With his arrows e'en now on the wing, In yon deep green recess there's a fountain for thee: Go, rest by that clear secret spring; To the spring, panting roe, to the spring. My spirit! still hovering, half blest, 'Mid shadows so fleeting and dim; Ah, knowest thou thy rock, and thy haven of rest, Then to Him, fluttering spirit, to Him! ANON. STAR OF BETHLEHEM. Ornithogalum. LANGUAGE-RECONCILIATION. HOMELY words may we deem them; the season has flown Let us make it up, brother. O, when we were young, Could banish forever the peace-making dove. If 'twas frighted a while from its haven of rest, It returned at the sound that would please it the best"Let's make it up." Let us make it up, brother. O, let us forget How it is that so coldly of late we have met; So take my hand firmly, and grasp as of yore; Let heart whisper to heart, as they whispered before, "Let's make it up." CHARLOTTE YOUNG. MY COUSIN. WELL, Sir, but here's to us both, from that time forth it became the great object of my life to effect that which I had failed of in my youth; and which my lovely little cousin so provokingly persisted in refusing. Why, sir, we were cousins; and, pray, what was there improper in it? Besides, hadn't I been absent five years? and now, when I returned, and was kissed by all, - uncle, aunt, nurse, down almost to the washerwoman,-it was absolutely outrageous that she alone was to stand out and be obstinate. But she was so lovely that I couldn't get angry at her; and, besides, what use would it have been to fume and fret? It wasn't the way to conquer, I'd learned that, any how, and it would have been ungallant in the highest. How should I win? I had but a couple of months to stay, and she was so popular that all the beaux of the country were thronging in her train. I'd a hard task before me, and it would have disheartened many a one; but I had been to the Black Hills, and shot buffalo. There was one of her suitors, named Thornton, whom she seemed to like better than the rest; and I must say, during the first month of my visit, she coquetted with him a good deal at my expense. It used to give me a touch of the old flutter now and then, but I consoled myself that, as I was not |