278 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



and deadens all the warmer sensations of the 

 heart. 



" For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise, 

 To lie in dead oblivion, losing half 

 The fleeting moments of too short a life 

 Total extinction of the enlightened soul." 



Thomson. 



SICKNESS. 



ANEMONE . A nemone . 



" So sudden fades the sweet Anemone. 

 The feeble stems, to stormy blasts a prey, 

 Their sickly beauties droop and pine away. 

 The winds forbid the flow'rs to flourish long, 

 Which owe to winds their name in Grecian song.* 



Eusden's Ovid. 



The anemone was made the emblem of 

 sickness, in allusion to the fate of Adonis, or, 

 as some suppose, from its being anciently 

 worn against disease. 



" Trust not too much your own resistless charms, 

 Those age or sickness soon or late disarms." 



Pope. 



