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TiA ANEMONE. 



Short time ensued, till where the blood* was shed, 

 A flower began to raise its purple head ; 

 Still here the fate of lovely forms we see, 

 So sudden fades the sweet Anemone : 

 The feeble stems to stormy blasts a prey, 

 Their sickly beauties droop and pine away ; 

 Their winds forbid the flowers to flourish long, 

 Which owe to winds their name in Grecian song, j- 

 EUSDEJf, yrom Ovid. 



From the soft wing of vernal breezes shed, 

 Anemones ; auriculas enriched 

 With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves ; 

 And full ranunculas, of glowing red. 



THOMSON, 



* The aJicienl' writers inform us, that Venus, in her grief for 

 the loss of Adonis, mingled her tears with his blood ; from 

 whence sprang an Anemone, the first ever seen. 



t Anemone is derived from the Greek «^«//.5j, the wind; 

 and hence is called tlic wind-flower, 

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