176 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



" For thee, O idleness ! the woes 

 Of life we patiently endure ; 

 Thou art the source whence labour flows, 

 We shun thee but to make thee sure. 



" For who 'd sustain war's toil and waste, 

 Or who th* hoarse thund'ring of the sea ; 



But to be idle at the last, 



And find a pleasing end in thee ? 



Smart. 



" The tyrant Lucre no denial takes ; 

 At his command th' unwilling sluggard wakes." 



Dry den. 



IMMORTALITY. 



AMARANTH. Amaranthus. 



" Immortal Amaranth ! a flower which once 

 In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, 

 Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence 

 To heaven removed, where first it grew ; there grows 

 And flowers aloft, shading the font of life : 

 And where the river of bliss, through midst of heaven 

 Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber strain, 

 With these that never fade." 



Milton. 



Homer having described the Thessalians as 

 wearing crowns of Amaranth flowers at the 



