ROSE. 
Ill 
When did Persuasion’s voice impart 
Content and peace to female heart 
Where baleful Jealousy bears sway, 
And scares each gentler guest away ! 
The Rose still grumbled and complained. 
Her mother’s bounties still disdained. 
Well, then,” said angered Flora—“ take”— 
She breathed upon her as she spake— 
“ Henceforth no more in simple vest 
Of innocence shalt thou be drest— 
Take that which better suits thy mind— 
The hue for Jealousy designed!” 
The Yellow Rose has from that hour 
Borne evidence of Envy’s power. 
There is another strongly marked variety of 
this flower in the Thornless Rose. The author 
of that affecting tale, “ The Leper of Aoste,” 
asserts that the thorns of the Rose are produced 
by cultivation; and this theory naturally sug¬ 
gested the emblem of ingratitude which has 
been adopted. In both these assumptions, 
however, there appears to be a wide departure 
from the ideas usually attached to a Rose 
without a thorn, which would more naturally 
present the image of love without alloy. 
In the “ Legend of the Rose,” we find this 
