CYPRESS. —CENTAURY. 
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THE CYPRESS TREE. 
This tree has been dedicated to sorrow and death in 
all civilized countries, and in all ages from the destruc¬ 
tion of Troy to the present day. 
The mournful cypress rises round, 
Tap’ring from the burial ground. 
LUCAN. 
In mournful pomp the matrons walk the round, 
With baleful cypress and blue fillets crown’d, 
With eyes dejected, and with hair unbound. 
.AENEAS, Book 3. 
THE BLUE-BOTTLE CENTAURY. 
This beautiful corn flower, the subject of the following 
verses, is made the emblem of delicacy from the purity 
of its celestial colour, which is not equalled by the finest 
ultramarine, and scarcely surpassed by the azure veins 
of youthful beauty. 
There is a flower, a purple flower 
Sown by the wind, nursed by the shower, 
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