20 LANGUAGE AND 
ANEMONE, WIND-FLOWER. 
Anemone Virginiana . Class 13 ; Order 13 
SICKNESS— FRAILTY--WITHERED HOPES—FORSAKEN 
—ANTICIPATION. 
Life’s frosts thou art too frail to bear, 
And in its storms wouldst perish ; 
A floweret love alone should wear, 
And on his bosom cherish. 
Love, like a rock, should firmly stand, 
And hang its shelter o’er thee; 
While only zephyrs soft and bland 
Dispense their sweets around thee. 
Some assert that this flower derives its name 
from anemos, the Greek word for wind, and say 
thence came our poetical appellation of “ the 
wind-flower.” The ancients, however, tell us 
that the anemone was formerly a nymph beloved 
by Zephyr, and that Flora, jealous of her beauty, 
banished her from her court, and finally trans¬ 
formed her into the flower that now bears her 
name. Another oft-tokl talc states that the 
anemone sprang from the blood of Adonis, com¬ 
bined with the tears which Venus shed over his 
body. The Greek poet Bion, in his ‘‘ Lament 
for Adonis,” sighs for 
