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Rose--Wusk, 
Rosa moschata. Natural OrveEr: osacee— Rose Family. 
and arbors; it grows from eleven to twelve feet high, requiring 
always some support to keep it from the ground. The flowers, 
which are large and white, bloom in clusters and have that 
$2 peculiar musky odor from whence it derives its name. It is 
OS said that Hymen, the god of matrimony, used to wear a 
crown of Roses, and that “his locks dropped perfume.” The Rose, 
of whatever species, color, or name, holds the supremacy in the hearts 
Charms of Pome. 
ie % E was made all up of love and charms! 
Delight of every eye! when he appear’d, 
A secret pleasure gladden’d all who saw him. 
—Addison. 
ER cheek had the pale, pearly tint HE passion you pretend, 
Of sea shells, the world’s sweetest tint, as though Was only to obtain; 
She lived, one half might deem, on roses sopp’d But when the charm is ended, 
In silver dew. — Bailey. The charmer you disdain. —Dryden. 
IGHT as the angel shapes that bless 
~ An infant’s dream, yet not the less 
Rich in all woman’s loveliness; 
With eyes so pure, that from their ray 
Dark vice would turn abash’d away. 
—Moore. 
ELL me where thy strength doth lie; HERE ’S no miniature 
Where the power that charms us so— In her face, but is a copious theme, 
In thy soul, or in thine eye? —Waller, Which would, discours’d at large of, make a volume. 
—Massinger. 
HE moved upon this earth a shape of brightness, 
A power that from its objects scarcely drew 
One impulse of her being —in her lightness, 
Most like some radiant cloud of morning dew. 
—Shelly, 
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