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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
sooner assassinated than the senate, in order 
to obliterate the name of so detestable a ty¬ 
rant, decreed that it should be called October. 
NOVEMBER 
“ November chill blaws loud wi’ angry sugh 
- “ the sun 
Scarce spreads thro’ aether the dejected day. 
Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot 
His straggling rays, in horizontal lines. 
Thro’ the thick air; as cloth’d in cloudy storm, 
Weak, wan, and broad, he skirts the southern sky ; 
And, soon-descending, to the long dark night, 
Wide-shading all, the prostrate world resigns.” 
Thompson. 
“ An ivy-wreath, fair learning’s prize. 
Raises Maecenas to the skies.” 
Horace. 
We would enliven this month of damp 
clouds and dull spirits by a garland of ivy in 
