278 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



and deadens all the warmer sensations of the 

 heart. 



" For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise. 

 To he in dead obhvion, losing half 

 The fleetino- moments of too short a life — 

 Total extinction of the enhghtened soul." 



Thomson. 



SICKNESS. 



Anemone . — Anemone. 



" So sudden fades the sweet Anemone. 

 The feeble stems, to stormy blasts a prey. 

 Their sickly beauties droop and pine away. 

 The winds forbid the flow'rs to flourish long. 

 Which owe to winds their name in Grecian song." 



Eusden's Ovid. 



The anemone was made the emblem of 

 sickness, in allusion to the fate of Adonis, or, 

 as some suppose, from its being* anciently 

 worn against disease. 



** Trust not too much your own resistless charms. 

 Those age or sickness soon or late disarms." 



Pope. 



