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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
FIDELITY IN FRIENDSHIP. 
Ivy. — Iledera helix. 
“ As the ivy, when blasts howl before it. 
Clasps the bough it encircles more tight; 
So my heart in the storms that break o’er it. 
More closely to thine shall unite. 
Then come to this bosom—’tis bleeding and bare; 
But the child of affliction may find a home there.” 
W. W. R. 
“ I love the ivy-mantled tower, 
Rock’d by the storm of thousand years.” 
Cunningham. 
This emblem of generous friendship attaches 
itself to the wretched : 
“ Thus stands an aged elm, in ivy bound. 
Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around.” 
Parnell. 
__“ Is aught so fair 
In all the dewy landscape of the spring,— 
The summer’s noontide grove—the purple eve 
At harvest-home, or in the frosty morn, 
Glitt’ring on some smooth sea, is aught so fair 
As virtuous friendship ?” 
A ken side. 
