THE DOG ROSE. 



delicious perfume. When the first of its kind meets our 

 eye, we are ready to exclaim with Mrs. Howitt, — 



" Welcome, oh ! welcome once again, 



Thou dearest of all the laughing flowers, 

 That open their odorous bosoms when 



The summer birds are in their bowers. 

 There is none that I love, sweet gem, like thee, 



So mildly through the green leaves stealing ; 

 For I seem as thy delicate flush I see, 

 In the dewy haunts of my youth to be ; 



And a gladsome youthful feeling 

 Springs to my heart, that not all the glare 

 Of the blossoming East could awaken there;" 



And at these times, when we think of, and look round upon, 

 many of the beauties of Flora's kingdom, we are disposed 

 to agree with her in preferring this flower, and say, — 



" — more than all, the sweet wild-rose, 



Starring each bush in lanes and glades, 

 Smiles in each lovelier tint that glows 



On the cheeks of England's peerless maids." 



It is a most fitting emblem of Simplicity, since it displays 

 its charms, now of the faintest blush, anon of richer roseate 

 hues, for the enjoyment and gratification of all, not confining 

 its treasures to the enrichment of a select few. 



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