Flora's Lexicon/Bell Flower
ELL-FLOWER, ROUNDLEAVED BELL-FLOWER, or HAREBELL. Campanula Rotundifolia. Class 5, Penrandria. Or-
der: Monogynia. The name of Bell-flower was never more appropriately bestowed than on this pretty, delicate plant, which has been imagined by some fanciful poets to ring out a peal of fairy music.
CONSTANCY.
Over the moorland, over the lea,Dancing airily, there are we:Sometimes, mounted on stems aloft, We wave o’er broom and heather,To meet the kiss of the Zephyr soft; Sometimes, close together,Tired of dancing, tired of peeping,Under the whin you’ll find us sleeping.
Daintily bend we our honey’d bells,While the gossiping bee her story tells,And drowsily hums and murmurs onOf the wealth to her waxen storehouse gone,And though she gathers our sweets the while,We welcome her in with a nod and a smile.
Twamley
Sooner I'll think the sun would cease to cheerThe teeming earth, and then forget to bear;Sooner that rivers would run back, or ThamesWith ribs of ice in June would bind his streams:Or nature, by whose strength the world endures,Would change her course before you alter yours,
Jonson.
When all things have their trial, you shall findNothing is constant but a virtuous mind.
Shirley.