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   THOUGHTS.-YOU OCCUPY MY THOUGHTS, OR PENSEZ k MOI. 
       Niole tricolor.                                      Pansies, Pensees,
or Heart's Ease. 
          Natural Order.                                                
 Class and Order. 
          VIOLACEE.                                            PENTANDRIA
MONOGYNIA. 
THE Heart's Ease, or Pansy, from the French pens&, a thought, is a species
of violet, and a native of 
Siberia, Japan, and many parts of Europe. Mr. Brooke, speaking of the forests
in Sweden,* says, 
" innumerable flowers, of the liveliest colours, peeped out between
the masses of brown rock, enamelled 
with various kinds of lichens; and huge fragments were variegated with beds
of the Pansy, or Heart's 
Ease, displaying its different hues, relieved by the dark green of the sweeping
pine."           This lovely 
flower, " freaked with jet," is very appropriately selected as
the emblem         of Thoughts, which are 
scarcely more numerous than its sportive varieties. 
                                   What is Thought? It is a mine 
                                   Whose gems are of a land divine: 
                                   A power no tyrant may control; 
                                   An emanation of the soul! 
                                   A spark of a celestial fire 
                                   To favonred man in mercy given; 
                                   Spirit of an immortal sire! 
                                   A plant, whose flower is Heaven! 
                                   Oh ! not beneath the sky's array 
                                     May highest thought with man unite;
                                     'Tis but a gleam of that fine light
                                   Whose glory shines through an eternal
day." 
                                                                 C. SWAIN.
     Though "the delicacy of its texture and the vivacity of its purple"
render it almost inimitable, it 
is hoped that each variety will be recognized, as they are here placed without
a specific name; it being 
the wish to gratify every admirer and cultivator in the pleasure of calling
them by their own familiar 
appellations. 
-      And there are Pansies that's for Thoughts."       " The
' thoughts that lie too deep for tears' 
                                       SHAKSPEARE.           May, by some
wond'rous power, 
                                                           Be called up in
life's future years 
 And thou, so rich in gentle names, appealing                By gazing on
a flower, 
   To hearts that own our nature's common lot;             Whose mute expression
well can reach 
 Those styl'd by sportive fancy's better feeling           The soul ;-more
eloquent than speech." 
                              .    *.. .    ....                        
           THE REv. W. B. CLAIKE. 
ought,' ' the Heart's Ease,' or ' Forget me not. 
                                    B. BARTON. 
TRUCTIONS FOR COLOURING.-The Countess in " le Spectacle de la Nature"
very justly says, 
ftest velvet, if set in competition with these flowers, would appear to the
eye as coarse as 
  In copying these, and every production of Nature, the truth of Thomson's
beautiful lines will 
bly felt.