HOW THE EOSE BECAME BED. 
YOUR PREFERENCE WOULD BRING ME CONSOLATION; 
YOUR LOVE. A RETURN OP HAPPINESS. 
Emblems. 
PREPERENCE — APPLE-BLOSSOM: CONSOLATION —P0PP7: 
LOVE —HOSE: RETURN OP HAPPINESS— 
VIOLET OF,THE VALLEY. 
“ Sometimes she shakes her head, and then his hand. 
Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground: 
Sometimes her arms enfold him like a band; 
She would: —he will not in her arms be bound ; 
And when from thence he struggles to be gone. 
She locks her fingers (round him ) one in one.” 
Shakspeabe’s Venus and Adoni*. 
It was drawing towards the decline of a beautiful 
summer day, when the red, round sun was bending 
down a deep, blue, unclouded sky, to where a vast 
range of mountains stretched, summit upon summit, 
and in the far distance again arose, pile upon pile, 
