208 
FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
MELANCHOLY. 
“ Thou flickering: solitary leaf. 
That hang’st on yonder blighted tree, 
Sad emblem of deserted grief. 
How like thou art to me.” 
Faded leaves are made emblematical of this 
gloomy and pensive temper. 
“ Cold grew the foggy morn, the day was brief. 
Loose on the cherry hung the crimson leaf.” 
Crabbe. 
“ So melancholy never tints 
The mind that owns her care 
With health or warmth, but only prints 
Her own cold image there.” 
Neele. 
How much better then to 
“ Think of all our miseries 
But as some melancholy dream, which has awaked us 
To the renewing of our joys.” 
