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POPPY. 
CONSOLATION. 
As these plants, or rather the juice extracted from 
them, are employed to ease pain and to procure sleep 
to the restless invalid, the red Poppy in floral lan- 
guage is made the symbol of consolation. The 
white Poppy is supposed to express " My bane, my 
antidote." 
According to the Grecian mythology, the Poppy 
owed its origin to Ceres, who created it to assuage 
her grief, during her search after her daughter Pro- 
serpine, who was carried off by Pluto. 
Indulgent Ceres knew my worth. 
And to adorn the teeming earth 
She bade the Poppy rise. 
Cowley. 
Sleep bringing Pnppy, by the ploughman late, 
Not without cause, to Ceres consecrate. 
W. Bkowke. 
