THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
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THE VINE.— Intoxication. 
Scott advocates a temperate use of the juice of the 
grape, administering, as it then does, to cheerful en¬ 
joyment :— 
Let dimpled mirth his temples twine 
With tendrils of the laughing Vine. 
THE WALL-FLOWER.— Faithful in Adversity. 
The Wall-flower—the Wall-flower, how beautiful it 
blooms ! 
It gleams above the ruined tower, like sunlight over 
tombs; 
It sheds a halo of repose around the wrecks of 
time;— 
To beauty give the flaunting rose, the Wall-flower is 
sublime. 
Flower of the solitary place! grey ruin’s golden 
crown! 
Thou lendest melancholy grace to haunts of old re¬ 
nown ; 
Thou mantlest o’er the battlement, by strife or storm 
decayed; 
And fillest up each envious rent Time’s canker-tooth 
hath made. 
Delta ( Moir). 
Why this flower is now called so, 
List, sweet maids, and you shall know. 
