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FIDELITY IN ADVERSITY. 
flourish in those of ruined towers, or orna¬ 
ment the mouldering tablet which records 
the names of those now almost forgotten by 
surviving relatives; 
For this obedient zephyrs hear 
Her light seeds round yon turrets mould. 
And, undispersed by tempest, there 
They rise in vegetable gold. 
LAN&HORNE. 
Not seldom do we observe a solitary wall¬ 
flower growing in the falling towers of an 
ancient castle, where it seems to place itself 
to conceal the unheeded injuries which the 
barbarians of feudal ages had recklessly done 
to the battlemented pile. Scott says, 
And well the lonely infant knew 
Recesses where the wall-flower grew. 
And honeysuckle loved to crawl 
Up the low crag and ruined wall. 
I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade 
The sun in all his round surveyed. 
We are told that the minstrels and trouba¬ 
dours of former days carried a branch of wall¬ 
flower as the emblem of an affection which 
continues through all the vicissitudes of time, 
and survives every misfortune. During the 
reign of terror in France, the violent popu¬ 
lace precipitated themselves towards the ab¬ 
bey of St. Denis, to disinter the ashes of their 
