Original Poetry.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4809, 7 June 1884, Page 1

Original Poetry.

FLORA'S SPELL

Bring, bring the pure pround Lily Bell, Bring Ferns, pearled with the brooklet's spray, Bring the Red Rose, and snow white May, Shy Violets from the greenwood dell.

Bring stems.of waxen Fuchsia pale, Forget-me-nots and Daisies too, Carnations bright, of many a hue, Verbena perfuming the gale.

Bring Guelder-rose, a mock Snowball, Scarlet Geranium's glory grand, The Myrtle from Italia's strand, And Ivy from the crumbling wall.

Bring slender bowing Columbine, Pansies, with, pretty upturned face And with its own peculiar grace, The English Honey-suckle twine.

Now hie tlioe to the fields, from thence While the lark sings far overhead, Bring Corn-flowers blue and Poppies red, And Wheat-ears from the harvest dense,

Then from her river home; so fair, Dwelling aloof from earth-blooms gay, That lovely fragile Naiad fay, The Water-lily gently bear.

. From lonely road and quiet heath, Bring goldeu Broom, pink Eglantine, And of the green fantastic Vine, .-.-.• Bring, bring a long and leafy wreath,

Then blend them all, the beauteous flowers, From field and garden, stream, arid vale, Contrast their colors, rich and pale, '' And homage yield to Flora's powers. "A," Thames/