FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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PENSIVENESS. 
Cowslip .—Primula veris. 
“ -Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head.’' 
ilton. 
“ Anxious cares the pensive nymph opprest. 
And secret passions labour’d in her breast.” 
Pope. 
We offer this, the poets’ favourite meadow 
flower, as symbolical of a mind so nearly al¬ 
lied to melancholy love, that we may occa¬ 
sionally place it on the lover’s escutcheon, 
with this motto from Hurdis : 
“ The love-sick cowslip, that head inclines, 
To hide a bleeding heart.” 
