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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
The melancholy signification of the Marigold 
may be modified in a thousand ways. Combined 
with roses, the symbol expresses the bitter sweets 
and pleasant pains of love. Alone it expresses 
grief; interwoven With other flowers, the varying 
events of life, the “ mingled yarn of good and ill 
together.” In the East, a bouquet of Marigolds 
and poppies expresses this thought—“I will allay 
your pain.” It is more especially by such modifica¬ 
tions that the Language of Flowers becomes the in¬ 
terpretation of our thoughts. Marguerite of Orleans, 
the maternal grandmother of Henry IV., chose for 
her armorial device a Marigold turning towards the 
sun, and for the motto, “ Je ne veux suivre quejui 
seul.” By this device the virtuous princess eon- 
veyed the idea that all her thoughts and affections 
turned towards heaven, as the Marigold towards 
the sun. 
One of our older poets thus moralizes over this 
flower: 
When, with a serious musing, I behold 
The grateful and obsequious Marigold, 
How duly, every morning, she displays 
Her open breast when Phoebus spreads his rays; 
How she observes him in his daily walk 
Still bending towards him her small slender stalk; 
