ROSEMARY. 385 



Sprigg'tl Rosemary the lads and lasses bore, 

 While dismally the parson walked before. 

 Upon her grave the Rosemary they threw, 

 The daisy, butter-flower, and endive blue." 



It was also planted near tombs, like Mallow and the 

 Asphodel. 



Spirit of wine, distilled from Rosemary, produces the 

 true IJungary-water ; but this is more generally made by 

 merely dissolving the oils of rosemary and of lavender in 

 spirit of wine. By many persons Rosemary is used as tea, 

 for headachs and nervous disorders. 



Slips or cuttings, taken in the spring just before they 

 shoot, and planted in a pot of light fresh earth, will soon 

 take root. When accidentally rooted in a wall or crevice 

 of a building, it will thrive, and endure the greatest cold 

 of our winters, however exposed to the wind. 



Mr. T. Moore alludes to its character as a mourner, in 

 the following passage : 



The humble rosemary, 



Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed 

 To scent the desert* and the dead." 



Shenstone expresses great indignation at the little re- 

 spect shown to the Rosemary in modern times : 



te And here trim rosmarin, that whilom crowned 



The daintiest garden of the proudest peer, 



Ere driven from its envied site, it found 



A sacred shelter for its branches here ; 



Where edged with gold its glittering skirts appear. 



Oh wassel days ! Oh customs meet and well ! 



Ere this was banished from its lofty sphere : 



Simplicity then sought this humble cell, 

 Nor ever would she more with thane and lordling dwell." 



SCHOOLMISTRESS. 



* In the Great Desert are found many stalks of lavender and rose- 

 mary. Asiat. Res. 



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