Wordsworth, in one of his poems, 

 speaks of this rose. In some of the old 

 " Herballs " this rose is mentioned also. 

 Wordsworth's verse goes as follows : — 



' ' From town to town, from tower to tower. 

 The red rose is a gladsome flower ; 

 Her thirty years of winter past 

 The white rose is revived at last, 

 She lifts her head to endless Spring- 

 For everlasting blossoming ; 



" Both roses flourish, red and white, 

 In love and sisterly delight. 

 The two that were at strife are blended, 

 And all old sorrows now are ended. 

 Joy, joy to both I but most to her 

 Who is the flower of Lancaster ! " 



The House of Stuart bore the white 

 rose as its emblem, and June 10 was 

 set apart as " White Rose Day," for 

 it was the birthday of the unhappy 

 James, the Pretender. A full-blown 

 rose was chosen by the Tudors for 

 their flower, and it blossoms out in 

 wood and stone all over the historic 

 monuments of England. 



For many years in Germany and in 



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