ROSE, Musk cluster. 



(Continued.) 



Who can resist her charms ? Young. 



Oh, he was all made up oflove and charms : 



Whatever maid could wish, or man admire ; 



Delight of every eye; when he appear'd, 



A secret pleasure gladden'd all that saw him ; 



But, when he talk'd, the proudest Roman blush'd 



To hear his virtues, and old age grew wise. Addison, 



ROSE-BUD, Red. 

 Rosa rubrifolia. 



You are young and 

 beautiful. 



She 's young and fair 

 In these, to nature she 's immediate heir. . . Shaks. 



Young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! 



And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay ! 



And happy [if aught happy here] as good ! Young. 



In youth's fresh bloom with beauty crown'd. 



jEschylus 1 Agamemnon. 



Fair, lovely maiden young and affable, 

 More clear of hue, and far more beautiful 

 Than precious sardonix, or purple rocks 

 Of amethyst, or glistering hyacinth. . . 



Shaks. 



Eternal youth 



O'er all her form its glowing honours breath'd, 

 And smiles eternal from her candid eyes 

 Flow'd like the dewy lustre of the morn, 

 Effusive trembling on the placid waves. . Akenside. 



Oh ! would that life were ever thus 

 As beautiful and gay 



. . W.B.G. 



ROSE, Red, full blown. 



Rosa rubrifolia. 



Beauty. Oh beauty ! till now I never knew thee. . . . Shaks. 



Lady, thy lofty brow is fair, 



Beauty's sign and seal are there. 



And thy lip is like the rose, 



Closing round the bee's repose. . . S. T. Lawrence. 



The faultless form, 



Shap'd by the hand of harmony ; the cheek 

 Where the live crimson, through the native white 

 Soft-shooting, o'er the face diffuses bloom, 

 And every nameless grace ; the parted lip, 

 Like the red rose-bud, moist with morning dew, 

 Breathing delight ; * * * * 

 The look resistless, piercing to the soul, 

 And, by the soul inforrn'd, when, drest in love, 

 She sits high-smiling in the conscious eye. Thomson. 



