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seem to revel in luxuriance, and as the light Summer breeze 
comes sighing through the ivied ti'acery of the windows, it 
brings with it a gush of fragTance, far excelling the incense 
that was wont to float through the “ long-diawn aisle” in 
times of yore. 
And where the golden censers high had flung 
Their fragi'ant clouds around the imaged throne. 
The wall-flower shed its perfume, as it clung. 
And waved in wild luxuriance o’er the stone 
Chafed by the stonns of years ; an emblematic bloom, 
A halo coronal of light o’er grandeur’s tomb. 
The Wall-flower is very appropriately considered the emblem 
of love in adversity, for it never appears on the stately pile in 
its day of pride and grandeur; but when the buttresses fall, 
and the walls totter, and desolation reigns over the decaying 
glories of a bye-gone time, then the flower brings its beauty 
and fragrance to gladden the solitary place, and by its cheerful 
smiles to rob the sad scene of half its gloom. 
So far we have looked on the serious and sentimental charac¬ 
ter of the Wall-flower; hut now Master Herrick shall give us 
a somewhat different view of the subject in a fable “ of his own 
composing.” 
HOW THE AVALL-l’LOWER CAME FIRST, AND WHY SO CALLED. 
Wily this flower is now called so, 
List, sweet maids, and you shall know. 
Understand, this firstling was 
Once a brisk and bonny lasse, 
(Kept as close as Dance was;) 
