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THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
Keats mentions it by tbe same name :— 
The creeper, mellowing for an antnmn blush; 
And Virgin’s Bower, trailing airily. 
Cowper alluding to the use to which the juice of 
some kinds of Clematis is applied in producing in¬ 
flammation of the skin, among the gipsies, thus speaks 
of their habit:— 
Great skill have they in palmistry, and more 
To conjure clean away the gold they touch, 
Conveying worthless dross into its place: 
Loud when they beg, dumb only when they steal. 
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Feigning sickness oft, 
They swathe the forehead, drag the limping limb, 
And vex their flesh with artificial sores. 
THE COLUMBINE.— Folly. 
Come forth now with thin eyen Columbine; 
says Chaucer, and Spenser speaks of two different 
coloured flowers:— 
Bring hither the pincke and purple Cullambine ; 
while as a wild flower it has been mentioned as of 
three different tints :— 
In pink or purple hues arrayed, ofttimes indeed in 
white, 
We see, within the woodland glade, the Columbine 
delight; 
