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FLORAL POESY. 
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows 
And fiowers aloft, shading the fount of life, 
And where the river of bliss, through midst of heaven 
Rolls o’er Elysian flowers her amber stream : 
With these that never fade the spirits elect 
Bind their resplendent locks enwreathed with beams ; 
Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright 
Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, 
Impurpled with celestial rosy smile.” 
These fiowers, if gathered and dried, will long pre¬ 
serve their beauty. 
One of the most popular species of the amaranth is 
the “ Love-lies-bleeding.” The origin of this singular 
appellation is not known, but it has been suggested 
that the following verses of Campbell account for it. 
The daughter of O'Connor is lamenting over the tomb 
of Connocht Moran: 
“ A hero’s bride ? this desert bower, 
It ill befits thy gentle breeding : 
And wherefore dost thou love this flower 
To call ‘ My-love-lies-bleeding’ ? ” 
“ This purple flower my tears have nursed ; 
A hero’s blood supplied its bloom : 
I love it, for it was the first 
That grew on Connocht Moran’s tomb.” 
THE AMARANTH. 
SHELLEY. 
Whose sad inhabitants each year would come 
With willing steps, climbing that rugged height, 
And hang long locks of hair, and garlands bound 
With amaranth flowers, which, in the clime’s despite. 
