FLORAL EMBLEMS.. 239 



PLEASURES OF MEMORY. 



PERIWINKLE. Vinca. 



" Come Memory, and with me go ! 

 Each lovely flower that breathes the spring 

 Affection's gentle hand shall strew." 



Dodd. 



The admirers of Rousseau held this flower 

 as the symbol of the pleasures of memory, be- 

 cause its appearance recalled the poet's mind 

 back to former friendships. 



" Companions of the youthful scene, 



Endear'd from earliest days ! 

 With whom I sported on the green, 

 Or rov'd the woodland maze !" 



Logan. 



Too many of us naturally exclaim in the 

 words of Goldsmith, 



" Oh Memory, thou fond deceiver, 



Still importunate and vain ; 

 To former joys recurring ever, 



And turning all the past to pain." 



