74 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



BEAUTY. 



FULL-BLOWN ROSE. Rosa. 



" Emblem of beauty ! for to thee it is 

 That passion likens woman's loveliness." 



Fitzjokn. 



" Rose ! thou art the sweetest flower 



That ever drank the amber shower ; 



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Even the gods, who walk the sky, 

 Are amorous of thy scented sigh." 



Moore's Anacreon. 



This queen of flowers is considered the pride 

 of Flora, and the emblem of beauty in every 

 part of the globe. 



Locke says, " Beauty consists of a certain 

 composition of colour and figure, causing de- 

 light in the beholder." And trouble in the 

 breast say the Damons of every age. 



" Your beauty was the cause of that effect, 

 Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep." 



