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LANGUAGE AND 
ROSE, FULL RED. 
Rosa rubifolia. 
Native of Switzerland and Savoy. Stem erect. Tha 
whole plant, branches, leaves, stalks, and tube of 
the calyx, are tinged with red. 
BEAUTY. 
Thy looks how lovely! and thy faces 
So eloquent with mental grace! 
Thy motions are as light and free 
As zephyrs o’er a summer sea;— 
Thou art, in truth, a wayward child, 
Thy words so gay, thy steps so wild ; 
And none can see thee speak or move 
Without some glow akin to love! 
The short life of this august flower ofttimes 
causes it, when fading , to be deemed a suitable 
representative of feeling beauty , and many are 
the ‘‘morals” that poet and philosopher have 
deduced from this stage; but there is also an¬ 
other record to be made, and that is of its fra¬ 
grance after death : the flush of beauty may be 
gone from its withered petals, but the scent of 
the rose will cling to it still. 
Even a dead rose —emblem of sweet memories 
—“ doth bequeath a charm to sweeten death,” 
because, though “ pale, and hard, and dry as 
stubble wheat,” yet, as Elizabeth Barrett Brown¬ 
ing tells us, 
