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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
with true courage. It was on this account that 
the ladies of chivalrous times embroidered on the 
scarfs which they presented to their knights the 
figure of a bee hovering about a sprig of Thyme ; 
in order to recommend the union of the amiable 
with the active. 
The wild Thyme has often been noticed by the 
poets: 
No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb 
The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow’ry Thyme. 
Dryden’s Virgil. 
Guide my way 
Through fair Lyceum’s walk, the green retreats 
Of Academus, and the Thy my vale. 
, Akenside. 
