LEGEND OF THE FLOWER-SPIRITS. 
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LEGEND OF THE FLOWER-SPIRITS. 
YOUR FIDELITY AND CANDOR HAVE WON MY 
AFFECTION. 
Emblems. 
WALLFLOWER— fidelity. WHITE VIOLET— candor. WOOD¬ 
BINE - AFFECTION. 
Sweet shapes were there—the Spirits of the Flowers : 
Sent down to see the summer-beauties dress, 
And feed their fragrant mouths with silver showers; 
Their eyes peeped out from many a green recess, 
And their fair forms made light the thick-set bowers; 
The very flowers seemed eager to caress 
Such living sisters, — and the boughs, long-leaved, 
Clustered to catch the sighs their pearl-flushed bosoms heaved. 
Fairest lady of the wildwood—tall white watcher 
of the forest! thou art the first to wave thy sun-dyed 
fingers, and tell to the fragrant flowers which sleep be¬ 
neath thy feet,, that the God of Day has once more 
wheeled up his golden chariot, and unrolled his ban- 
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