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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
TIME AND THE FLOWERS. 
YOUR YOUTHFULNESS CAUSES ME TO FEAR THAT YOU 
MAY CHANGE : ONCE UNITED I SHALL BE NO 
LONGER PENSIVE. 
Emblems. 
YOUTHFULNESS—CROCUS': CHANGE —PIMPERNEL ■ 
UNITED —LANCASTER ROSE: PENSIVENESS— 
COWSLIP. 
“ ’Twas a happy thought to mark the hours 
By the opening and the folding flowers ; 
Yet is not life in its real flight 
Marked even thus on earth, 
By the closing of one Hope’s delight, 
Ere another Hope hath birth ? ” 
Mrs. Hemans. 
Happy was that age, when Love and Beauty 
kept no other record of time than what they found 
in the opening and closing of the flowers,—when 
the day was measured by the rising and setting 
of the sun, and the hours marked in the unfolding 
