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LANGUAGE OP FLOWERS. 
OLD SAXON FLOWERS. 
YOUR HUMILITY, AND CONSTANCY, AND PURITY OP 
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 gate-way 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 
