J2 LANGUAGE APfD SKNTIMENT OF FLOWERS. 



delightful in nature, are alone able to perfect 

 what they have originated. 



We shall conclude this introduction with 

 the following lines from Burns, on the 

 "Emblems of Flowers." 



Adown winding Nith I did wander, 

 To mark the sweet flowers as tiiey spring ; 



Adown winding Nith I did wander, 

 Of Phillis to muse and to sing. 



The daisy amused my fond fancy, 



So artless, so simple, so wild : 

 Thou emblem, said 1, o' my Phillis, 



For she is simplicity's child. 



The rose-bud's the blush of my charmer, 

 Her sweet balmy lip when 'tis press'd ; 



How fair and how pure is the lily, 

 But fairei and purer her breast. 



Yon knot of gay flowers in the arbor, 

 They ne'er wi' my Phillis can vie ; 



Her breath is the breath of the woodbine, 

 Its dew drop o' diamond her eye. 



Her voice is the song of the morning, 

 That wakes through the green-spreading giove. 



When Phcebus peeps over the mountains, 

 On music, and pleasure, and love. 



But beauty, how frail and how fleeting 

 The bloom of a fine summer's day ! 



While worth in the mind ' my Phillis 

 Will flourish with ait a decay ! 



