HOW THE ROSE BECAME RED. 
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HOW THE ROSE BECAME RED, 
YOUR PREFERENCE WOULD BRING ME CONSOLATION; 
YOUR LOVE, A RETURN OF HAPPINESS. 
22 m h l e m s. 
APPLE-BLOSSOM— preference. POPPY— consolation. 
ROSE— love. VIOLET OF THE VALLEY— 
return of happiness. 
“ Sometimes she shakes her head, and then his hand, 
Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground: 
Sometimes her arms enfold him like a band ; 
She would:—he will not in her arms be bound; 
And when from thence he struggles to be gone, 
She locks her fingers, (round him) one in one.” 
Shakspeare’s Vernas and Adonis. 
It was drawing toward the decline of a beautiful 
summer day, when the red, round sun was bending 
down a deep, blue, unclouded sky, to where a vast 
range of mountains stretched, summit upon summit, 
and in the far distance again arose, pile upon pile, until 
high over all towered the god-haunted height of cloud' 
