LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING. 



Aniarfuithitfi cmifhftits. 



HE amaranth -is a fact and a 

 fancy. It is the flower of 

 immortality, the flower of 

 love, the flower of fame, 

 and the flower that accom- 

 panies Hope until she is 

 ruthlessly swallowed by De- 

 spair. " Love-lies-bleeding" 

 is a name needing no ex- 

 planation to one who has 

 seen the flower, for often 

 the pendent inflorescence, of 

 a brilliant crimson colour, 

 may be likened to streams 

 of blood; but as a figura- 

 tive expression it might 

 with equal propriety be 

 called " Hate-lies-bleeding." 

 Amaranthus is the unfading 

 flower, amar giving the ad- 

 jective to the noun. By a 

 confusion common in the history of words, amar has been 

 changed to amor, and thus the unfading flower becomes 

 the flower of love : the outward characters explain the rest. 

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