FLORAL EMBLEMS. Ill 



DECEITFUL HOPE. 



DAFFODIL. Narcissus Pseudo. 



" When early primroses appear, 



And vales are deck'd with daffodils, 

 I hail the new reviving year, 



And soothing hope my bosom fills." 



Williams. 



Fable tells us that Proserpine was gather- 

 ing daffodils when seized by Pluto. 



" Sweet hope ! kind cheat ! fair fallacy by thee 

 We are not where or what we be ; 

 But what and where we would be ; thus art thou 

 Our absent presence, and our future now/ 7 



Crashaw. 



In the Romish church, this flower is dedi- 

 cated to St. Perpetua. The Petticoat Daffo- 

 dil, Narcissus Bulbocodium, is dedicated to 

 St. Catherine ; and the Nodding Daffodil, 

 Narcissus nutans, to St. Julian. 



