Precaution, Golden Rod. 
With flo’rets wrapped in silky down, to guard it 
from the bee, 
Precaution’s emblem we may well in Solidagosee. 
Precocity, May Rose. 
Early comer, ere the summer, 
Thou dost all thy sweets dispense, and all thy 
charms display; 
When June cometh, no bee hummeth 
Round thy beauteous blossom, it hath hastened to 
decay: 
So precocious Summer flowers untimely fade away. 
ference, Apple Blossom, 
Who would not thy bloom prefer. 
Of ripe fruit the harbinger. 
To the fairest flowers that blow. 
And about their odours throw. 
’esumption. Snap Dragon, 
“ The stern and furious lion’s mouth ” 
Described by Calumella, thou dost wear, 
Presuming thus to ape the king of beasts. 
Who so gay as he, when drest 
In his spotted scarlet vest? 
What pretence is in his air ; 
Mark him in the garden there ! 
