OLD SAXON FLOWERS. 
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OLD SAXON FLOWERS, 
YOUR HUMILITY, AND CONSTANCY, AND PURITY OF 
HEART, CLAIM MY AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE. 
Emblems. 
BROOM — humility. CANTERBURY-BELL —constancy. 
WHITE WATER-LILY— purity of heart. ROSE¬ 
MARY — affectionate remembrance. 
Oft musing by the greenwood side, 
’Mid Blue-bells deep, and golden Broom, 
Time’s ancient gateway open wide, 
And far adown the gathering gloom, 
On many a mouldering Saxon tomb, 
The oldest flowers of England bloom. 
Beautiful art thou, O 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 
chrystal-globed dews, that settle upon thy blossoms 
like sleep on the veined eyelids of an infant, are ever 
beating above and around thee, as if to tell that they 
