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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
MELANCHOLY OR FORSAKEN LOVER. 
Weeping Willow.— Saiix babylonica. 
« Thus o’er our streams do eastern willows lean 
In pensive guise; whose grief-inspiring shade. 
Love has to melancholy sacred made.” 
Delille. 
Few emblems have been more celebrated 
by the poets than this of the forsaken lovers. 
“ To the brook and the willow that heard him complain, 
Ah, willow ! willow ! 
Poor Colin went weeping and told them his pain. 
Rowe. 
“ I offered him my company to a willow tree, to make 
him a garland, as being forsaken ; to bind him up a rod, 
as being worthy to be whipt.”— Shakspeare. 
< In love the sad forsaken wight 
The willow garland weareth.” 
Drayton. 
