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THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Potato. 
Prickly Pear 
Pride of China ... 
Primrose . 
Primrose, Evening 
Primrose, Red 
Privet. 
Purple Clover 
Pyrus Japonica .., 
Benevolence. 
Satire. 
Dissension. 
Early youth. 
Inconstancy. 
Unpatronized merit. 
Prohibition. 
Provident. 
Fairies’ fire. 
By the soft green light in the woody glade, 
On the banks of moss where thy childhood played ; 
By the household tree through which thine eye 
First looked in love to the summer sky; 
By the dewy gleam, by the very breath 
Of the Primrose tufts in the grass beneath, 
Upon thy heart there is laid a spell, 
Holy and precious—oh ! guard it well! 
Yes, when thy heart in its pride would stray 
From the pure first loves of its youth away; 
When the sullying breath of the world would come 
O’er the flowers it brought from its native home ; 
Think thou again of the woody glade, 
Of the sound by rustling ivy made ; 
Think of the tree at thy father’s door, 
And the kindly spell shall have power once more. 
Mbs. Hemans. 
