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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
BEAUTY. 
Full-blown Rose. — Rosa. 
Emblem of beauty ! for to thee it is 
That passion likens woman’s loveliness.” 
Fitzjohn. 
“ Rose ! thou art the sweetest flower 
That ever drank the amber shower ; 
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Even the gods, who walk the sky. 
Are amorous of thy scented sigh.” 
Moore’s Anacreon. 
This queen of flowers is considered the pride 
of Flora, and the emblem of beauty in every 
part of the globe. 
Locke says, “ Beauty consists of a certain 
composition of colour and figure, causing de¬ 
light in the beholder.” And trouble in the 
breast say the Damons of every age. 
“ Your beauty was the cause of that effect. 
Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep.” 
