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PENSIVENESS. 



Cowslip. — Primula veris. 



Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head." 



ilfo?i. 



" Anxious cares the pensive nymph opprest. 

 And secret passions labour'd in her breast." 



Pope. 



We offer this, the poets' favourite meadow 

 flower, as symbolical of a mind so nearly al- 

 lied to melancholy love, that we may occa- 

 sionally place it on the lover's escutcheon, 

 with this motto from Hurdis : 



" The love-sick cowslip, that head inclines. 

 To hide a bleeding heart." 



