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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
A HEART IGNORANT OF LOVE. 
Bud of a white Rose. 
Mythologists tell us that the rose was origi 
nally white, and that the warmer tint was 
first given to it by the blood of Venus. 
“ While the enamoured queen of joy 
Flies to protect her lovely boy. 
On whom the jealous war-god rushes ; 
She treads upon a thorned rose. 
And while the wound with crimson flows. 
The snowy floweret feels her blood, and blushes.” 
Catullus. 
