onna, Charlotte Elizond
CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH,

AUTHOR OF THE FLOWER GARDEN, FLORAL BIOGRAPHY,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN S. TAYLOR, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL,
145 NASSAU STREET.

Opposite the Tract House.

21X-15

THE

FLOWER OF INNOCENCE.

"THERE is a flower, a simple thing—
But dear, most dear to me-
And 'midst a thousand gayer flowers,
That fairest still will be.

It dots the ground with star-like gems
About my place of birth-

And there, where'er the sod is green,
'Tis smiling from the earth.

It comes when wakes the pleasant spring-
When first the earth is green-
Four white, or pale blue leaves it hath,
With yellow heart between.

It loves to deck the grassy bank,
That slopes a-down the brook;
For there, it takes a deeper blue,
And there, a gayer look.

But when it grows on sod exposed,

Its leaves are small and white

As if the modest flower grew pale
Amidst the glare of light—