One secret of my soul to show, 
One hidden thought betray. Miss Landon. Be private yourself ? —Marston. 
Hoase--dahite, 
Rosa alba. Narurat Orver: Rosacee—Rose Family. 
country, the Rosa alba, or White Rose, a shrub growing 
from six to seven feet high. Its flowers are usually pure 
white, though sometimes delicately tinted with a blush. The 
White Rose. has been selected as a bape of secrecy, as 
ge: secretly; and Booth says it was so considered by the ancients, silo 
2 5 hung it up at their entertainments, as a token that anything there 
said was not to be divulged. The flowers are very fragrant, and 
perrecy. 
EARCH not to find what lies too deeply hid; 
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. 
—Denham. 
ELL, read my cheek, and watch my eye,— HEN two know it, how can it be a secret? 
Too strictly school’d are they, And indeed with what justice can you 
Expect secresy in me, that cannot 
NDEED, true gladness doth not always speak: 
Joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. 
—Ben Fonson. 
Y list’ning powers E leew keep this secret from the world, 
Were awed, and ev’ry thought in silence hung, As warily as those that deal in poison 
And wond’ring expectation. —Ahenside. Keep poison from their children: —Webster. 
SECRET in‘his mouth, 
Is like a wild bird put in a cage; 
Whose door no sooner opens, but ’tis out. 
— Fonson. 
NTO our calm today its ghost comes gliding— Silence! its pale lips say; the snow-white silence 
Known all too late! Of yon sad stone. 
Take from my hand its emblem, and the emblem Yet—lingering joy —the sharers, even of silence, 
f \ Of our strange fate. Are not alone! —Howard Glyndon. 
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