ROSE, Multiflora. 



(Continued.) 



All the wonders of external grace, 

 A person finely turn'd, a mould, a face, 

 Where, union rare, expression's lively force, 

 With beauty's softest magic holds discourse, 



Attract the eye, 

 Rouse the quick passions, and inflame the heart. 



Churchill. 



Melinda ! formed with every grace complete, 

 Yet these neglecting, above beauty wise. Thomson. 



ROSE, Mundi. 

 Rosa Tersicolor. 



Variety. 



Skilled alike to dazzle and to please. . . . Rogers. 



Each look, each motion, waked a new-born grace, 



That o'er her form its transient glory cast. 

 Some lovelier wonder soon usurped the place, 

 Chas'd by a charm still lovelier than the last. 



Mason. 



That loveliness, ever in motion, which plays 

 Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, 

 Now here, and now there, giving warmth as it flies 

 From the lips to the cheek, from the cheek to the eyes 

 Now melting in rnist, and now breaking in gleams ; 

 Like the glimpses a saint hath of heav'n in his dreams. 



Moore. 



She stood as stands a rainbow in a storm, 

 Changing its hue with bright variety, 

 But still expanding lovelier o'er the sky, 

 Howe'er its arch may swell, its colours move, 



The cloud-compelling harbinger of love. 



As sun-shine dwells upon the summer wave, 

 Changing for ever, yet for ever bright. 



New beauties rise with each revolving day. 



Byron. 



S. P. C. 



Thomson. 



ROSE, Musk cluster. 

 Rosa muschata. 



Charming. 



Where the power that charms us so, 

 In the soul, or in the eye ? . . 



Behold a nymph with ev'ry virtue graced, 

 Minerva's head on Venus' shoulders placed ! 

 Here's beauty, mental, moral, and divine, 

 To charm the lover, and his thoughts refine. 



Waller. 



Anon. 



What 's female beauty, but an air divine, 



Through which the mind's all gentle graces shine ? 



They, like the sun, irradiate all between, 



The body charms, because the soul is seen. Young. 



With artless grace, and native ease she charms. 



Darwin. 



