Violet* Sweet. 
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— Uptil 6tb — Modesty. < > 
Violets, shy violets! 
Ravish the enraptured air 
With sweetness, dewy, fresh, and rare ! 
George Meredith. 
Violet Yellow. — 7tb — Rural Happlnesa. 
The violetj in her greenwood bower. 
Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, 
May boast herself the fairest flower 
In glen, or copse, or forest dingle. 
Sir Walter Scott. 
St. John's Wort. — 8tb — Animosity. 
Hypericum, all bloom, so thick a swarm 
Of flowers, like flies, clothing its slender rods. 
That scarce a leaf appears.— Ciywper. 
Rose. — 0tb — Love. 
While we invoke the wreathW Spring, 
Resplendent rose ! to thee we’ll sing. 
A nacreon. 
Woodbine. — tOtb — Fraternal Love. 
Dost dare^refer 
The woodbine, for her fragrant summer breath. 
B. Cornwall. 
Orchis. — lltb — A BeUe. 
Pause where foam-like meadow queen 
Scatters her blossoms on the lake, 
Or where the orchis blooms among 
The lady fern or feathery brake. 
An?u Pratt. 
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