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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
OLD SAXON FLOWERS. 
YOUR HUMILITY, AND CONSTANCY, AND PURITY OF 
HEART, CLAIM MY AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE. 
Emblems. 
HUMILITY— BROOM: CONSTANCY — CANTERBURY BELL : 
PURITY OF HEART — WHITE WATER-LILY: AFFEC¬ 
TIONATE REMEMBRANCE — ROSEMARY. 
Oft musing by the greenwood side, 
’Mid Blue-bells deep, and golden Broom, 
Time’s ancient gateway open wide, 
And far adown the gathering gloom, 
On many a mouldering Saxon tomb, 
The oldest flowers of England bloom. 
Beautiful art thou, 0 Broom! waving in all 
thy rich array of green and gold, on the breezy 
bosom of the bee-haunted heath. The sleeping 
sunshine, and the silver-footed showers, the clouds 
that for ever play about the face of Heaven, the 
homeless winds, and the crystal-globed dews, that 
settle upon thy blossoms like sleep on the veined 
