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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
HOW THE ROSE BECAME RED. 
YOUR PREFERENCE WOULD BRING ME CONSOLATION ; 
YOUR LOVE, A RETURN OF HAPPINESS. 
Emblems. 
PREFERENCE—^ PPLE-BLOSSOM: CONSOLATION—POPP Y: 
LOVE— ROSE: RETURN OF HAPPINESS— 
VIOLET OF THE VALLEY. 
“Sometimes she shakes her head, and then his hand, 
Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground : 
Sometimes her arms enfold him like a band; 
She would:—he will not in her arms be bound ; 
And when from thence he struggles to be gone, 
She locks her fingers, (round him) one in one.” 
Shakspere’s Venus and Adonis. 
It was drawing towards the decline of a beautiful 
summer day, when the red, round sun was bending 
down a deep, blue, unclouded sky, to where a vast 
range of mountains stretched, summit upon summit, 
and in the far distance again arose, pile upon pile, 
