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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
“ For thee, O idleness ! the woes 
Of life we patiently endure ; 
Thou art the source whence labour flows, 
We shun thee but to make thee sure. 
“ For who’d sustain war’s toil and waste, 
Or who th’ hoarse thund’ring of the sea ; 
But to be idle at the last, 
And find a pleasing end in thee ?” 
Smart. 
“ The tyrant Lucre no denial takes ; 
At his command th’ unwilling; sluggard wakes.” 
Dry den . 
IMMORTALITY. 
Am ar a nt h .— Amaranthus. 
“ Immortal Amaranth ! a flower which once 
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life. 
Began to bloom ; but soon for man’s offence 
To heaven removed, where first it grew; there grows 
And flowers aloft, ehading the font of life : 
And where the river of bliss, through midst of heaven 
Rolls o’er Elysian flowers her amber strain, 
With thesfrthat never fade.” 
Milton. 
Homer having described the Thessalians as 
wearing crowns of Amaranth flowers at the 
