ILLUSTRATION OF PLATE. Jasmine.-Strawberry.-Tulip Your amiability, and the excellence of your character, have compelled me to declare my love. 'Twas not the glossy, golden flow Of tresses richly braided, 'Twas not the dimpled rose below, Those dark-fringed eyes of brilliant blue, It was not these-though these excel, It was not these, that wove the spell, Thy heart is like the Jasmine-bell, Thy mind is like the Strawberry vine, I've twined with these a Tulip rich, Within whose heart of fire, Thou 'It read a deep, warm passion, which F. S. O. |