FLOWERS OF THOUGHT. 
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FLOWERS OF THOUGHT. 
IN SOLITUDE AND SILENCE YOU OCCUPY 
MY THOUGHTS, SUCH IS MY DEVOTED ATTACHMENT. 
3H in b l e m s. 
HEATH— solitude. WHITE ROSE— silence. PANSY— thought. 
HELIOTROPE— ‘DEVOTED attachment. 
“Juliet leaning 
Amid her window-flowers,—sighing—weaning, 
Tenderly her fancy, from its maiden snow, 
Doth more avail than these : the silver flow 
Of Hero’s tears, the swoon of Imogen, 
Fair Pastorella in the bandit’s den, 
Are things to brood on.” —Keats’ Endymicm. 
“There is Pansies,” said the sweet Ophelia ; “that’s 
for thoughts but whether sad or pleasing the immortal 
poet mentions not. For well did he know that where 
so many hues were thrown upon the face of one flower, 
Fancy would, according to the feeling of the moment, 
trace out her own favorite image. In the dark lines 
which diverge and widen from the centre, spreading 
over the subdued silver, branching across the yellow 
