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CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY. 
appearances to cast a stigma upon innocence 
itself. It has been observed that the bones 
of all animals, feeding upon it, become red, 
the hardest parts changing first, until the 
whole substance is coloured; and “if the 
plant he alternately given and intermitted, the 
hones are found to be coloured in concentric 
circles.” 
CANDOUR. 
WHITE VIOLET. 
Candour precedes modesty, of which the 
blue violet is frequently used as the emblem. 
The white violet is the same flower, still 
clothed in the robes of innocence. 
CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY. 
MUSK ROSE. 
And each inconstant breeze that blows 
Steals essence from the musky rose. 
This species of the rose lacks freshness. 
Its mean flowers would be entirely without 
effect if they did not grow in panicles, con¬ 
taining from twenty to one hundred or more. 
