166 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
proof that you are not forgotten. But this second 
trial must be conducted with great caution. You 
must blow very gently ; for, at any age, even at 
that which love renders most resplendent, it is 
wrong to dispel too rudely the illusions which em- 
bellish life. 
The Dandelion attracts attention at a much 
earlier period of life. Friend Howitt speaks of 
it as 
Dandelion, with globe of down, 
The schoolboy's clock in every town, 
Which the truant puff's amain, 
To conjure lost hours back agsin. 
