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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
placing in the hollow of the palm of the left 
hand a petal, or flower-leaf, of the Poppy, 
which, on being struck by the other hand, was 
broken with a sharp sound, which denoted true 
attachment, but faithlessness when it failed to 
snap. 
By a prophetic Poppy leaf I found 
Your changed affection, for it gave no sound, 
Though in my hand struck hollow as it lay; 
But quickly withered, like your love, away. 
