liOSft alba. Natural Order: Rosacece—Rose Family. 
ERMANY produces, more extensively perhaps than any other 
country, the Rosa alba, or White Rose, a shrub growing 
from six to seven feet high. Its flowers are usually pure 
white, though sometimes delicately tinted with a blush. The 
White Rose has been selected as a symbol of secrecy, as 
f ” the old Latin phrase sub rosa signifies under the rose, or 
secretly; and Booth says it was so considered by the ancients, who 
^ U P at their entertainments, as a token that anything there 
said was not to be divulged. The flowers are very fragrant, and 
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QEARCH not to find what lies too deeply hid; 
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. 
-Denham. 
TT7ELL, read my cheek, and watch my eye,— 
* * Too strictly school’d are they, 
One secret of my soul to show, 
One hidden thought betray. Miss London. 
TT7HEN two know it, how can it be a secret? 
' ' And indeed with what justice can you 
Expect secresy in me, that cannot 
Be private yourself ? —Mars/on. 
INDEED, true gladness doth not always speak: 
Joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. 
—Ben Jonson. 
1X/TY list’ning powers ' T’LL keep this secret from the world, 
Were awed, and ev’ry thought in silence hung, A As warily as those that deal in poison 
And wond’ring expectation. —Akenside. Keep poison from their children. — Webster. 
/» SECRET in his mouth, 
A SECR 
1 1 Is like a wild bird put in a cage; 
Whose door no sooner opens, but ’tis out. 
— Jonson. 
INTO our calm today its ghost comes gliding— Silence! its pale lips say; the snow-white silence 
* Known all too late! Of yon sad stone. 
Take from my hand its emblem, and the emblem Yet — lingering joy — the sharers, even of silence, 
Of our strange fate. Are not alone! —Howard Glyndon. 
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