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To make of parts an union, 
But on a sudden all were gone, 
At which I stopt; said Love, these be 
The true resemblances of thee; 
For as these flowers, thy joyes must die. 
And in the turning of an eye; 
And all thy hopes of her must wither 
Like those short sweets ere knit together. 
Though so similar in nature and appearance, yet Pinks 
and Carnations are expressive of very opposite sentiments in 
floral language. A Pink, presented by a gentleman to a 
lady, is an offer of marriage:—a Carnation, given by a lady 
to a gentleman, signifies her refusal of his addresses. On 
this very important point rest the chief events of the illus¬ 
trative romance which accompanies the plate. 
The simple, delicate, and fragile Harebell (Camfamda 
rotundifolia) is a very common way-side flower, as well as 
a constant guest in the more lonely scenery of the momitain 
and moorland. It does not shun even the dusty turnpike 
roads, but suflers its excpiisitely formed bells of twilight blue 
to gleam out, and tremble and wave over the oft-trodden 
])ath as gTaccfully as in the still solitude of the heathery 
moor. The extreme thinness of the stems, and their buoyant 
elasticity, give a bounding, dancing effect to the flowers 
when stirred by the lightest breeze; and they do, indeed, 
seem “ to a fanciful ” eye, to be ringing out a merry peal 
of fairy-like music : — 
Have ye ever heard, in the twilight dim, 
A low soft strain, 
H H 
