208 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



MELANCHOLY. 



, " Thou flickering solitary leaf, 



That hang'st on yonder blighted tree, 

 Sad emblem of deserted grief, 

 How like thou art to me." 



Faded leaves are made emblematical of this 

 gloomy and pensive temper. 



Cold grew the foggy morn, the day was brief, 

 Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf." 



Crabbe. 



" So melancholy never tints 



The mind that owns her care 

 With health or warmth, but only prints 

 Her own cold image there." 



Neele. 



How much better then to 



" Think of all our miseries 



But as some melancholy dream, which has awaked us 

 To the renewing of our joys." 



