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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
“ The Red-breast 
-Half afraid, he first 
Against the window beats : then, brisk, alights 
On the warm hearth ; then, hopping on the floor. 
Eyes all the smiling family askance. 
And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; 
’Till more familiar grown, the table crumbs 
Attract his slender feet.” 
Peacham says, “ January should be clad 
all in white, like the colour of the earth at 
this season, blowing his nails; in his left arm 
a billet, the sign Aquarius standing by his 
side.” 
This month and the next were added to the 
year by Numa Pompilius, and had the name 
from Janus, a Roman god, painted with two 
faces, (signifying providence or wisdom,) judg¬ 
ing by things past of things to come. 
