FLORA’S LEXICON.
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ONVOLVULUS, or SEA BINDWEED. Calystegia Soldanella. Class 5, Pentandria. Order: Monogynia. Botanists have recently separated this flower from the genus Convolvulus, and name it Calystegia, from two Greek words signifying pretty, and a covering, the calyx of the flower being covered by two leaf-like appendages called bracts.
UNCERTAINTY.
On the low sandy shore,
Where, with a mighty roar,
Breakers, with foam-crest hoar,
Long years have roll’d;—
Where the turf never springs,
Where the wind’s buffetings
Tear the poor flower, that clings
To the rock cold.
Where, with a mighty roar,
Breakers, with foam-crest hoar,
Long years have roll’d;—
Where the turf never springs,
Where the wind’s buffetings
Tear the poor flower, that clings
To the rock cold.
There, Lady, low and lone,
Where, on the storm-blast’s moan,
Comes the wreck’d sailor’s groan,
Is my chill dwelling;—
I hear the signal gun,
Ere the storm’s work is done;
I know that help is none,
I know the good ship’s gone,
I know the tempest’s won
The triumph ’tis telling.
Where, on the storm-blast’s moan,
Comes the wreck’d sailor’s groan,
Is my chill dwelling;—
I hear the signal gun,
Ere the storm’s work is done;
I know that help is none,
I know the good ship’s gone,
I know the tempest’s won
The triumph ’tis telling.
Twamley.
Hope and fear alternate sway’d his breast,
Like light and shade upon a waving field,
Coursing each other, when the flying clouds
Now hide, and now reveal the sun.
Like light and shade upon a waving field,
Coursing each other, when the flying clouds
Now hide, and now reveal the sun.
Home.
