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THE LOVER’S OFFERING, 
Flowers, 
Meanings. 
Gilly-flower 
...Beauty unfading. 
Bonds of Affection 
Glory Flower ... 
...Unequalled Beauty 
Goat’s Rue 
...Reason 
Golden Rod 
...Precaution, Encour¬ 
agement 
Gooseberry 
...Anticipation 
Goosefoot. 
...Goodness 
Gorse. 
...Anger 
Gourd . 
...Extent, Bulk 
Grape, Wild ... 
... Rural felicity, Charity 
Grass . 
...Utility, Submission 
Guelder Rose ... 
...Winter of Age 
GERANIUM, SILVER-LEAVED.. .RECALL. 
Dear love, come back; the past shall be 
By me forgotten quite; 
Return, and in my welcome see 
Thou art my heart’s delight. 
I tried in vain to bid my heart 
Forget its early dream; 
But ah! the dream would not depart, 
For thou wert still its theme. 
