FLORAL CEREMONIES. 
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Each knight is robed in purple, 
With olive each is crowned ; 
A gallant war-horse under each 
Taws haughtily the ground. 
On ride they to the Forum, 
While laurel-boughs and flowers, 
From house-tops and from windows, 
Fall on their crests in showers. 
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Unto the great Twin Brethren 
Lo ! all the people throng, 
With chaplets and with offerings, 
With music and with song. 
While flows the Yellow River, 
While stands the Sacred Hill, 
The proud Ides of Quintillis 
Shall have such honour still.” 
Lays of Ancient Rome. 
On the subject of chaplets and garlands so 
much has been said and written, that we 
might fill a volume with mere quotations ; by 
the ancients beauty and divinity were alike 
