FLORAL EMBLEMS. HI 



DECEITFUL HOPE. 



Daffodil. — Narcissus Pseudo. 



" When early primroses appear. 



And vales are deck'd with daffodils, 

 I hail the new reviving year. 



And soothing hope my bosdm fills." 



Williams. 



Fable tells us that Proserpine was gather- 

 ing daffodils when seized by Pluto. 



*' Sweet hope ! kind cheat ! fair fallacy by thee 

 We are not where or what we be ; 

 But what and where we would be ; thus art thou 

 Our absent presence, and our future now." 



Crashaw. 



In the Romish church, this flower is dedi- 

 cated to St. Perpetua. The Petticoat Daffo- 

 dil, Narcissus Bulbocodium, is dedicated to 

 St. Catherine; and the Nodding Daffodil, 

 Narcissus nutans, to St. Julian. 



