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MODESTY. 
MISANTHROPY. 
TEASEL. 
The flowers of the teasel are bristled with 
long sharp thorns, and the whole plant has 
an air of severity ; yet it is useful and beau¬ 
tiful. The clothiers use it to raise the nap 
upon woollen cloths, by means of the crooked 
awns or chaffs upon the heads. 
MODESTY. 
BLUE VIOLET. 
Violets, whose looks are like the skies. 
BARRY CORNWALL. 
This beautiful flower is known to all who 
have breathed the pure air of British fields. 
They could not pass along our hedge rows 
in spring without inhaling its fragrant per¬ 
fume, though its tiny head is so completely 
hid beneath its humble foliage that it seldom 
meets the eye of the careless passer by. 
Yet, although unheeded, 
Gentle gales, 
Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense 
Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole 
These balmy spoils. milton. 
