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the descriptions and interpretations with which 

 we have been favored from time to time. We 

 have dwelt on, till we have become enamored 

 of the delicate mode of expressing the rise and 

 progress of love by the gift of the tender rose- 

 bud, or the full blown flower. We have pitied 

 the despair indicated by a present of myrtle 

 interwoven with cypress and poppies, and we 

 believe that these emblems will never cease 

 to convey some similar sentiments, wherever 

 poetry is cultivated or delicacy understood." 

 The same author continues, "But" Oh, 

 reader, mark that "but," 'tis* a frightful word, 

 is it not ? ever coming to dissipate some bright 

 dream, to scare some beautiful phantom of the 

 imagination from our presence, and to guide our 

 wandering feet back into the world of cold 

 reality, where 



" The mute expression of sweet nature's voices, 

 Are drowned amid the turmoil of life's noises ; 

 Where thoughts of fear and darkness come unbidden, 

 And love and hope are into silence chidden." H. G. A. 



But we fear that the Turkish < Language of 



Flowers,' which Lady Montague first made 



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