LAVENDER. 
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He, soon aware, 
Each perturbation smooth’d with outward calm, 
Artificer of fraud! and was the first 
That practised falsehood under saintly show. 
Clematis, wreath afresh thy garden bower. 
And virgin’s bower, trailing airily. 
KEATS. 
THE LAVENDER. 
In the floral emblems of the Turks, this agreeable plant 
represents assiduity ; but the continental emblematists make 
it symbolical of mistrust and disunion, because it is fre¬ 
quently used to cover disagreeable odours. 
Mistrust can only belong justly to such as are accus¬ 
tomed to cheat and deceive, and those need no greater 
curse for their misdeeds. 
And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom 
Shall be erewhile in arid bundles bound, 
To lurk amidst her labours of the loom, 
And crown her kerchiefs clean with mickle rare perfume. 
SHENSTONE. 
