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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
NIGHT. 
Convolvulus Minor. — Convolvulus Tricolor. 
“ No^ sunk the sun; the closing hour of day 
Came onward, mantled o’er with sober gray; 
Nature in silence, bid the world repose.” 
Parnell. 
The hours of darkness are represented by 
this belle-de-jour , which closes its sparkling' 
eyes at the close of day, as if to sleep through 
the dewy night, when 
“ All things are hush’d, as nature’s self lay dead.” 
“ I love thee, mournful, sober night! 
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I still enjoy thee—cheerless as thou art; 
For in thy quiet gloom the exhausted heart 
Is calm, tho’ wretched ; hopeless, yet resign’d.” 
Charlotte Smith. 
