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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
and deadens all the warmer sensations of the 
heart. 
“ For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise. 
To lie in dead oblivion, losing- half 
The fleeting- moments of too short a life— 
O 
Total extinction of the enlightened soul.” 
Thomson. 
SICKNESS. 
Anemone. — Anemone. 
“ So sudden fades the sweet Anemone. 
The feeble stems, to stormy blasts a prey. 
Their sickly beauties droop and pine away. 
The winds forbid the flowTs to flourish long. 
Which owe to winds their name in Grecian song.” 
Eusden’s Ovid. 
The anemone was made the emblem ot 
sickness, in allusion to the fate of Adonis, or, 
as some suppose, from its being 1 anciently 
worn against disease. 
“ Trust not too much your own resistless charms, 
Those age or sickness soon or late disarms.” 
Pope. 
