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POETICAL LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
plentiful is it in our country that we might fancy the 
breeze had blown it every where. The gaudy Ane¬ 
mone of the garden, the emblem of forsaken lo\ e, is 
known to all; but our favorites are the uncultivated 
offspring of the windy woods, which come long before 
the broad green leaves hang overhead to shelter them. 
The Laurustinus is a beautiful evergreen, bearing 
white flowers ; which, before they become opened, 
have all the richness of the Rose about the coloi of 
the buds. Why so hardy a plant was selected for the 
image of Neglected Love we know not, unless it be 
that Love dies a hard death, and is difficult to destroy. 
Milton has found a much more poetical image in 
“The rathe Primrose that forsaken dies,” 
than in the Anemone ; and for the sake of the Raid of 
Paradise, the Primrose should have been held invio¬ 
lable to Forsaken, or Neglected Love. It is a more 
poetical flower than either of the above, and although 
we have followed our predecessors in nothing but their 
ill-chosen names, yet our emblem of Forsaken Love is 
' the Primrose, so christened by Milton at his own Im¬ 
mortal Font. 
