RED AND WHITE ROSES. 



a lovely blue, the colour of the eye of a young lady whose 

 characteristic is constancy. 



RED AND WHITE ROSES.— Warmth of Heart. 



The poet Bonnefons sent to the object of his affection 

 two Roses, one deep red, the other white. The Red Rose 

 was the symbol of his heart, which was being consumed by 

 the intensity of his anxiety, the other told of the pallor of 

 his countenance, caused by the exhausting force of his 

 internal fire. He sent with the Roses the following lines : 



" Pour toi, Daphnd, ces fleurs viennent d'dclore ; 

 Vols, I'une est blanche, et I'autre se colore 

 D'un vif dclat : I'une peint ma paleur, 

 L' autre mes feux ; toutes deux mon malheur.'' 



Carew, who lived 1 580-1639, has thus interpreted the 

 language of the Red and White Rose together, — 



" Read in these Roses the sad story, 

 Of my hard fate, and your own glory ; 

 In the white you may discover 

 The paleness of a fainting lover ; 

 In the red the flames still feeding 

 On my heart with fresh wounds bleeding. 

 The white will tell you how I languish, 

 And the red express my anguish, 

 The white my innocence displaying, 

 The red my martyrdom betraying : 

 The frowns that on your brow resided, 

 Have those roses thus divided. 

 Oh ! let your smiles but clear the weather, 

 And then they both shall grow together." 

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