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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
POETRY. 
Sweet Briar, or Eglantine. 
Rosa rubiginosa, or Eglanteria. 
“ Real indigenous poetry is a sweet flower.” 
Campbell. 
“ Come, gentle air ! and while the thickets bloom, 
Convey the jasmin’s breath divine; 
Convey the woodbine’s rich perfume. 
Nor spare the sweet-leaved eglantine.” 
Shenstone. 
The fragrance of the eglantine is as delight¬ 
ful to the olfactory nerves, as the charms of 
poetry are to the ear ; they both reach the 
soul of sensibility, and each has its thorn. 
- “ How far have we 
Prophan’d thy heav’nly gift of poesy ? 
Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, 
Whose harmony was first ordain’d above 
For tongues of angels.” 
Dry den . 
