LESSONS.

AUNT LIZZIE.

Out in the sunny garden-plot,
Among the blossoms gay,
The lilies and the four-o'clocks,
What have you learned to-day?

ALFRED.
Loud humming in a hollyhock,
I heard a little bee:
He filled his yellow thighs with wax,
And this he taught to me:
"Short time have I to honey win;
Short time have you to study in;
Soon life and summer glide away:
We must keep busy every day."
BESSY.
And on a purple candytuft
I saw a butterfly:
It waved its red-and-yellow wings,
And said, "A worm was I:
Be cheerful whatso'er befall,
And hope to soar when forced to crawl."
CHARLEY.
Among some morning-glories set
There grew the fragrant mignonette:
It said to me, "A winning grace
A kind heart lends the plainest face:
Who would my simple blossom choose
Should I my pleasant perfume lose?"
DORA.
Upon a green sweetbrier bough,
A pleasant, shady place,
All hung with dew, like gems, I found
A web of silver lace;
And on it, with its many eyes,
I saw a spider watching flies,
Who taught me this: "One must beware;
The fairest thing may prove a snare."

AUNT.