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THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
ARRANGEMENTS OF A BOUQUET. 
b* ■NICHOLAS DRAYTON. 
Here damask roses, white and red, 
Out of my lap first take I, 
Which stiilshaH run along the thread 
My chiefest flower this make I. 
Amongst these roses in a row, 
Next place I pinks in plenty, 
These double pansies then for show 
And will not this be dainty ? 
The pretty pansy then I’ll tie 
Like stones some chain inchasins; 
And next to them, their near ally, 
The purple violet placing. 
1 he curious choice clove July flower 
Whose kind hight the carnation, 
° f most soverei ?n Dower, 
bhali help my wreath to fashion, 
Whose sundry colours of one kind, 
First from one root derived, 
T *jem in their severaI ■suits I’ll bind • 
My garland so contr.ved. 
