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CLOVER. 
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The land of red heather and thistle so green ; 
For that land and that freedom our fathei’s have bled, 
And we swear by the blood that our fathers have shed, 
No foot of a foe shall e’er tread on their grave ; 
But the thistle shall bloom on the bed of the brave, 
The thistle of Scotland, the thistle so green.’ 
“ There appears to be no proof of this sturdy flower 
having been adopted as the symbol of Scotland earlier 
than the middle of the fifteenth century, when a puri¬ 
tanic council held a solemn consultation within the 
walls of the old Council-house at Edinburgh as to the 
advisability of erasing the papistic figure of St. Giles— 
which for so many centuries had been triumphantly 
borne through the battle and the breeze—from the old 
standard : religious animosity gained the day, and the 
time-honored figure of the saint was replaced by the 
thistle. ”—J. Ingram. 
CLOVER 
OR, 
SHAMROCK. 
(J Promise.) 
HE white Clover, or Shamrock, is the national 
-L emblem of Ireland, and claims an equal place in 
history with England’s rose or Scotland’s thistle. This 
symbol of their country is worn bv Irishmen on the 
anniversary and in commemoration of St. Patrick’s land¬ 
ing near Wicklow, in the beginning of the fourth cen- 
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