THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 93 
And wipe, with tender hand, away. 
The tear that on its blushes lay ! 
’Tis sweet to hold the infant stems, 
Yet drooping with Aurora’s gems, 
And fresh inhale the spicy sighs 
That from the weeping buds arise ; 
When revel rains, when mirth is high. 
And Bacchus beams in every eye. 
Our rosy fillets scent exhale. 
And fill with balm the fainting gale ! 
Oh, there is nought in nature bright 
Where Roses do not shed their light ! 
When morning paints the orient skies. 
Her fingers burn with roseate dyes. 
And when, at length, with pale decline. 
Its florid beauties fade and pine. 
Sweet as in youth, its balmy breath 
Diffuses odour e’en in death ! 
O, whence could such a plant have sprung 
Attend—for thus the tale is sung ;— 
When humid from the silvery stream, 
Effusing beauty’s warmest beam, 
Venus appear’d in flushing hues. 
Mellow’d by Ocean’s briny dews ; 
When in the starry courts above, 
The pregnant brain of mighty Jove 
