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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
PURITY AND MODESTY. 
White Lily. — Lilium Candidum. 
“Ye loftier lilies, bath’d in morning dew. 
Of purity and innocence renew 
Each lovely thought-.” 
Barton. 
All nations and ages agree in making this 
flower the symbol of purity and modesty ; 
and its beauty and delicacy has ever been 
the theme of admiration with the poets from 
the time of Solomon to the present day. 
Cotton thus addressed a beautiful young 
girl, who was admiring these flowers : 
“ Lilies are by plain direction 
Emblems of a double kind ; 
Emblems of thy fair complexion, 
Emblems of thy fairer mind . 
