TULIP. 71 
TULIP. 
DECLARATION OF LOVE. 
Its the East the Tulip is employed as the emblem 
by which a lover makes a declaration of love, 
presenting the idea that, like that flower, he has 
a face all on fire and a heart reduced to a coal — 
Whose leaves, with their ruby glow, 
Hide the heart that lies burnins and black below. 
On account of the elegance of its form, the beauty 
of its colours, but its wast of fragrance and other 
useful qualities, this flower has been considered 
as an appropriate symbol of a female who possesses 
no other recommendation than personal beauty. 
It is supposed to have been brought from Persia 
to the Levant, and it was introduded into western 
Europe about the middle of the sixteenth century, 
by Busbeck, ambassador from the Emperor of Ger- 
many to the Porte ; who, to his astonishment, found 
Tulips on the road between Adrianople and Con- 
