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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
Losing soon life’s happy prime. 
Droop and fade in little time. 
Spring returns, but not our bloom. 
Still ’tis winter in the tomb !” 
Cowper. 
LASTING PLEASURE. 
Everlasting Pea. — Lathyrus Latifolius. 
This perennial plant, that 
“ Catch the neighbouring shrub 
With clasping tendrils, and invest his branch. 
Else unadorned, with many a gay festoon.” 
is made the emblem of lasting’ pleasure, since 
its beautiful clusters of flowers are renewed 
every year to the joy of all the admirers of 
Flora's gifts. 
