OLD SAXON FLOWERS. 
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headed “ Rural Cemeteries,” so have good reason 
for not going again over the same ground. Shak- 
speare, who never even gathered an image from a 
flower, or selected it as an emblem, without first 
examining its appropriate nature, chose the Rose¬ 
mary as the representative of Remembrance, for it 
flowers in winter. How beautiful and poetical is 
this allusion ! When all around beside is withered 
and decayed, when the 
“Wind and rain beat dark December,” 
and the gaudy Summer is dead and buried, with 
all her wreathed flowers; it was then that from the 
only one which came to look upon and cheer man 
by its presence, he chose the Rosemary, and said— 
“ That’s for Remembrance; 
I pray you, love, remember.” 
OLD SAXON FLOWERS. 
The Lily on the water sleeping, 
Enwreath’d with pearl, and boss’d with gold, 
An emblem is, my love, of thee : 
But when she like a nymph is peeping, 
