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THE MORAL OF FLOWERS. 
harmonises as little with any thing around it; and 
may be characterised among the most insignificant of 
vegetable reptiles.” 
Shakspeare treats its fruit with as little ceremony; for 
when Thersites, a scurrilous Grecian, would show his 
contempt for all the leaders in the camp, he says of 
Ulysses, “ he is not proved worth a blackberry.” The 
former writer does indeed allow it may be seen with 
effect “ scrawling along the fragments of a rock, or 
running among the rubbish of a ruin.” 
This reminds us of a passage in Hasselquist’s travels, 
who, on visiting the poor remains of Scanderette, one 
of Alexander’s magnificent cities, observed a species of 
bramble, before unknown to him, growing among the 
ruins. His botanical research, unwittingly perhaps to 
himself, found a just comment on that passage, in 
Isaiah, “ Thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles 
and brambles in the fortresses thereof.” (xxxiv. 13 .) 
AY hat dost thou here, pale flower? 
Thou that afore wert never seen to shine 
In gay parterre, or gentle lady’s bower, 
In lover’s wreath, or poet’s gifted line. 
