LEGEND OF THE FLOWER-SPIRITS. 
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LEGEND 0i THE FLOWER-SPIRITS. 
YOUR FIDELITY AND CANDOUR HAVE WON MY 
AFFECTION. 
Emblems. 
FIDELITY— WALLFLOWER: CANDOUR —WHITE VIOLET: 
AFFECTION — WOODBINE. 
Sweet shapes were there—the Spirits of the Flowers ; 
Sent down to see the summer-beauties dress, 
And feed their fragrant mouths with silver showers; 
Their eyes peeped out from many a greeu recess, 
And their fair forms made light the thick-set bowers; 
The very flowers seemed eager to caress 
Such living sisters,—and the boughs, long-leaved, 
Clustered to catch the sighs their pearl-flushed bosoms heaved. 
Beautiful Woodbine! thou art the fairest lady 
of the wildwood — the tall white watcher of the 
forest! the first to wave thy sun-dyed fingers, and 
tell to the fragrant flowers which sleep beneath thy 
feet that the God of Day has once more wheeled 
up his golden chariot, and unrolled his banner of 
