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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
THE QUEEN OE MAY. 
HOPE AND DESIRE BREAK MY REPOSE, AND HAVE 
CALLED FORTH THIS DECLARATION OF LOVE. 
Emblems. 
HOPE— HAWTHORN: DESIRE—I VHITE JONQUIL: REPOSE 
— CONVOLVULUS: DECLARATION OF LOVE — TULIP. 
’T was May-day morn, nor had a lovelier day 
From out the eastern chambers e’er been given. 
The lark had left the heath and flown away. 
Singing, into the clear dome of heaven; 
The bee went round to tell the flowers ’t was May. 
The beautiful Hawthorn has been selected, as 
well as the Snowdrop, for the emblem of Hope ; 
and there are few but can recall with delight the 
healthy fragrance which has cheered them, while 
wandering between the green hedgerows of England. 
Our old poets, as if despairing to find a fitting 
