

6 THE ROSE. 
is mingled with our tears, and spread in our 
gayest walks; in epitaphs it expresses youthful 
modesty and chastity, while in the song of the 
Bacchanalians their god is compared to this 
flower. The beauty of the morning is allegori- 
cally represented by it, and Aurora is depictured 
strewing roses before the chariot of Pheebus: 
“When morning paints the orient skies, 
Her fingers burn with roseate dyes.” 
The Rose is supposed to have given name to 
the Holy Land, where Solomon sang its praises, 
as Syria appears to be derived from Suri, a 
beautiful and delicate species of Rose, for which 
that country has always been famous; and hence 
Suristan, or the ‘Land of Roses.” The island of 
Rhodes owes its name to the prodigious quantity 
of roses which formerly grew upon its soil. 
Anacreon’s Birth of the Rose stands thus 
translated by Moore: 
“Oh! where could such a gregh have sprung? 
Attend—for thus the tale is su 
hen in the starry courts above, 
The pregnant brain of mighty Jove 


