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Wall-Flower ....Fidelity in Adversity. 
This flower derives its name from the circumstance 
of its growing upon old walls, the casements and bat¬ 
tlements of ancient castles, and among the ruins of 
abbeys. The troubadors were accustomed to wearing 
a bouquet of Wall-flowers, as the emblem of an affection 
which is proof against time and the frowns of fortune. 
Adah. —Alas! thou sinnest now, my Cain; thy 
words 
Sound impious in mine ears. 
Cain .—Then leave me 1 
Adah. —Never, 
Though thy God left thee! 
Byron. 
An emblem true thou art 
Of love’s enduring lustre given 
To cheer a lonely heart. 
Barton. 
Flower of the solitary place! 
Gray Ruin’s golden crown, 
That lendest melancholy grace 
To haunts of old renown; 
Thou mantlest o’er the battlements 
By strife or storm decayed; 
And fillest up each envious rent 
Time’s canker-tooth hath made. 
Moir. 
