lANGTTAGE OF FLOWERS. 25 
the descriptions and interpretations with Avhich 
we have been favored from time to time. We 
have dwelt on, till we have become enamored ' 
of the delicate mode of expressing the rise and j 
progress of love by the gift of the tender rose- j 
bud, or the full blown flower. We have pitied i 
the despair indicated by a present of myrtle 
interwoven with cypress and poppies, and we 
believe that these emblems will never cease i 
to convey some similar sentiments, wherever i 
poetry is cultivated or delicacy understood.” 
— The same author continues, “ But” — Oh, j 
reader, mark that “but,”’tis a frightful word, i 
is it not ? ever coming to dissipate some bright i 
dream, to scare some beautiful phantom of the 
imagination from our presence, and to guide our 
wandering feet back into the world of cold 
reality, where— 
“ The mute expression of sweet nature’s voices, | 
Are drowned amid the turmoil of life’s noises ; 
Where thoughts of fear and darkness come unhidden. 
And love and hope are into silence chidden.”—II. G. A. | 
“ But we fear that the Turkish « Language of : 
Flowers,’ which Lady Montague first made 
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