1(5 Tllli LANGUAGE OP FLOWERS. 
Thus did the gentle hoy mitigate his grief by 
turning an emblematic wreath into a mute 
expression of it. 
“ Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, 
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it 
break,” 
Says Malcom to the bereaved husband and 
father, in “ Macbeth,” — and this poor orphan 
had hit upon a mode of giving his sorrow 
words, more touching, perhaps, than a more 
loud and violent utterance could have been. 
Another bard has given us an example of the 
power which ho attributes to flowers for al- 
laying the tempest of grief, rage, and hate, 
passions which sometimes meet and struggle 
for mastery in the human bosom, rendering 
him whom they controul speechless, and sul- 
len as the cloud before the rattling thunder 
and the vivid lightning breaks forth, to 
scathe and destroy. In “ The Bride of Aby- 
dos,” Selim, after listening to the taunts ard 
reproaches of old Giaffir, stands thus moody 
and silent, a prey to these contending passions, 
when : — 
