Raised on a bank, where daisies grew, And violets intermix'd a blue, She finds the boy she went to find; A thousand pleasures wait behind, Aside a thousand arrows lie, But all, unfeather'd, wait to fly.

It is the cry of all mankind when love is thus slit in twain; nor is sorrow comforted because coral is made of love's bones, or violets spring from his flesh, and the vanished self is possibly absorbed into the felicity of an infinite and everlasting azure.

" WHEN THE WATER STARTS TO RUN Along in early spring time, as the sun starts swinging North To linger with the land it loves, and violets peep forth, When the water starts to running thru the riffle blocks at noon

He met her in a garden where sweet marjoram combined With azure violets a scent that ravished every wind.

As far back as the time of Juno, we read, according to Homer's graphic account, how: "Glad earth perceives, and from her bosom pours Unbidden herbs and voluntary flowers: Thick, new-born violets a soft carpet spread, And clust'ring lotos swelled the rising bed; And sudden hyacinths the earth bestrow, And flamy crocus made the mountain glow.

TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME A BOX OF VIOLETS Nay, more than violets These thoughts of thine, friend!

Hyacinths in the window, roses on the mantelpiece, and violets every whereah!

During the months of my engagement to Violet these communications of mine (you will allow) were frequent enough: since our marriage they have grown shamefully fewer.