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Cactus. 
With pellucid studs the Ice-Flower gems 
His rimy foliage, and his candied stems. 
Darwin. 
As water fluid is, till it do grow 
Solid and fixed by cold, 
So in warm seasons love doth loosely flow; 
Frost only can it hold; 
Your coldness and disdain 
Does the sweet course restrain. 
Cowley. 
Cactus... .Ardent Love. 
The flower of the Cactus is .chosen to signify ardent 
love, because of the glowing hues of the flower itself, 
and the heat of the climate in which the plant grows 
to the greatest size. The gorgeousness of the flower 
of the Cactus needs no eulogy. No fitter emblem could 
have been selected to represent the passion of love in 
its full flame. 
I think of thee, when soft and wide 
The evening spreads her robes of light, 
And, like a young and timid bride, 
Sits blushing in the arms of night: 
And when the moon’s sweet crescent springs 
In light o’er heaven’s deep waveless sea, 
And stars are forth like blessed things, 
I think of thee—I think of thee. 
6 W. Prentice. 
