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THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
THE AMARANTH.— Immortality, Unfading. 
Milton, describing the worship of the Creator, when 
He had spoken to the angels of the “ new heaven and 
earth,” says— 
To the ground 
With solemn adoration down they cast 
Their crowns inwove with Aniarant and gold, 
Immortal Amarant, a flower which once 
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, 
Began to bloom; but soon for man’s offence 
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, 
And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, 
And where the river of bliss through midst of Heaven 
Rolls o’er Elysian flowers her amber stream; 
With these, that never fade, the spirits elect 
Bind their resplendent locks enwreathed with beams, 
Now in loose garlands thick thrown off; the bright 
Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, 
Empurpled with celestial roses, smiled. 
THE AMARYLLIS— Pride, Haughtiness. 
When Amaryllis fair doth show the richness of her fiery 
glow, 
The modest lily hides her head; the former seems so 
proudly spread 
To win the gaze of human eye, which soonest brightest 
things doth spy. 
Yet vainly is the honour won, since hastily her course 
is run; 
She blossoms, blooms,—she fades,—she dies,—they 
who admired, now despise. 
Flowers and Heraldry. 
