TUB LANGUAGE OP FLOWERS. 11 
“ Floral CoremonieB,” the antiquity of the use 
of flowers, are fully proved, as ornaments 
and adjuncts to splendour and enjoyment, on 
festive and other occasions, and as they wore 
bo used and appropriated, we may well be- 
lieve in their extended application, as sym- 
bols of passion and Bentiment. But little need 
we imagine will there be, lot proof of this ; all 
who really love flowers ; who delight in them 
as the sweetest characters which appear on the 
pages of the book of nature, ever spread out 
for their instruction, will at once coincide in 
our opinion, and say, without pausing to exa. 
mine what Pliny has said upon this subject, 
to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics, or to 
compare the floral alphabet of the effeminate 
Chinese, with that of the voluptuous Turk, or 
the more refined and classic Greek, — 
“ Have not flowers a language 7 speak, young rose, 
Speak, bashful sister of the footless dell ! 
Thy blooming loves— thy sweet regards disclose ; 
Oh speak ! for many a legend keep’st thou well ; 
Tales of old wars — crusading knights who fell, 
■And bade thee minister their latest sighs ! 
Speak, grey -haired daisi/! ancient primrose tell! 
