TIME AND THE FLOWERS. 
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TIME AND THE FLOWERS. 
YOUR YOUHFULNESS CAUSES ME TO FEAR THAT YOU 
BfAY CHANGE: ONCE UNITED, I SHALL BE NO 
LONGER PENSIVE. 
Emblems. 
CROCUS— vouthfulness. PIMPERNEL— change. LANCASTER 
ROSE— UNITED. COWSLIP— PENSIVENESS. 
“ ’Twas a happy thought to mark the hours 
By the opening and the folding flowers; 
Yet is not life in its real flight 
Marked even thus on earth, 
By the closing of one Hope’s delight, 
Ere another Hope hath birth 1 ” 
Mas. Hemans, 
Happy was that age when Love and Beauty kept 
no other record of time than what they found in the 
opening and closing of the flowers,—when the day 
was measured by the rising and setting of the sun, 
