326 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



WISDOM. 



MULBERRY-TREE. Morbus. 



" And that old mulberry that shades the court 

 Has been my joy from very childhood up/' 



H. Kirke White. 



"the green leaf 



Which feeds the spinning worm." 



Pliny observes, that the mulberry-tree was 

 esteemed the wisest of all the trees, because it 

 never expanded its buds until all fear of frost 

 was past, and hence the origin of the emblem. 



" Pronounce him blest, my muse, whom wisdom guides 

 In her own path to her own heavenly seat ; 

 Through all the storms his soul securely glides, 

 Nor can the tempest, nor the tides 

 That rise and roar around, supplant his steady feet." 



Wntts. 



