has made it spring and flourish over the tomb of Z 
sweet and plaintive notes: 
A single rose is shedding there 
Its lonely lustre meek and pale : 
It looks as planted by despair — 
So white, so faint — the slightest gale 
Might whirl the leaves on high ; 
And yet though storms and blight assail, 
And hands more rude than wintry sky 
May wring it from the stem — in vain — 
To-morrow sees it bloom again! 
The stalk some spirit gently rear?, 
And waters with celestial tears ; 
For well may maids of Helle deem, 
The short-lived beauty of the rose has given ri 
lines on the death of Mr. Herrys : an instance occu 
Kostrov: 
sika; while the nightingale sooths his beloved with his 
That this can be no earthly flower 
Which mocks the tempest’s withering hour, 
And buds unsheltered by a bower; 
Nor droops, though spring refuse her shower, 
Nor wooes the summer beam: 
To it the livelong night there sings 
A bird unseen, but not remote : 
Invisible his airy wings, 
But soft as harp that Houri strings, 
His long entrancing note. 
Bride of Abydos. 
to many reflections and comparisons ; as in Crashaw’s 
also in Mr. Bowring’s translation from the Russian of 
The rose is my favorite flower: 
On its tablets of crimson I swore, 
That up to my last living hour, 
I never would think of thee more. 
I scarcely the record had made, 
Ere zephyr in frolicsome play, 
On his light airy pinions conveyed, 
Both tablets and promise away. 
Bowring's Russian Anthology. 
Roses, when they are associated with a moral meaning, are generally identified with mere pleasure; 
but some writers with a juster sentiment, have made them the emblems of the most refined virtue. In the 
Orlando Innamorato, the famous Orlando puts roses in his helmet, which guard his ears against a syren; 
and in Lucian, a man who has been transformed into an ass, recovers his shape upon eating some roses.* 
Officinal Preparations. Three kinds of roses are used by the London College: the hundred- 
leaved rose, the red rose, and the dog rose. There are two formulae in the Pharmacopoeia, where the petals 
of the hundred-leaved rose are directed to be employed; namely. Rose Water, and the Syrup of Roses. 
Rose water is used as a collyrium, or Eye-wash; and Hahnemann asserts that its efficacy in ophthalmia, 
is owing to the power which rose-leaves possess of exciting inflammation of the eyes in the healthy.f 
A grain of the sulphate of copper or sulphate of zinc, is a usual addition in such cases, to an ounce of 
rose-water. 
It is hardly necessary to add that these remedies are useful only when the disease is slight. Rose- 
water is also used in making the Compound Iron mixture, where it leaves a pleasant flavour on the palate, 
after the styptic taste of the iron, and the bitterness of the myrrh. 
The Syrup of roses is slightly laxative, but is chiefly used to give colour to draughts of an uncertain hue. 
The red rose, which is astringent, and of a deeper colour, is used for rose honey, the compound infu- 
sion of roses, and the confection of the red rose. 
Rose honey may be added to detergent gargles, or employed as an application to the thrush in children. 
The compound infusion of roses, which contains sulphuric acid and sugar, is an elegant vehicle for 
Epsom salts ; and the merit of first using it for this purpose is attributed to the late Sir Walter Farquhar. 
Without this addition it is a pleasant gargle in common sore-throat. 
The confection of the red rose is used to form pills, and is also dissolved in draughts, for the sake of 
its colour. 
The confection of the dog rose is prepared with the pulp of hips (the fruit) and sugar ; in the pro- 
portion of twelve ounces of the former to twenty of the latter. This confection is sometimes added to a 
pectoral electuary or linctus. 
The French Codex contains a tisane made with two drachms of red roses to a quart of water ; this 
may serve as a pleasant drink in a number of cases where the London infusion would be objectionable, from 
the quantity of sulphuric acid which it contains. 
On the whole, the rose, though not an essential, is an agreeable, aid in pharmacy ; and we should be 
sorry to hear that a dry utilitarianism had succeeding in dismissing it. 
* Orlando Innamorato, Canto 33, Stanza 33 ; and Franklin’s Lucian, Vol. iij. p. 236. 
f Organon der Heilkunst. p. 9. Ed. 1824. 
