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FLORAL RECORDS. 45 
guage lends a grace to the deed which thus 
blessed the adversity of a queen. 
The great Condé soothed the dull hours 
of his captivity at Vincennes by cultivating 
pinks ; and Danton—the cruel and blood- 
stained—is said to have exclaimed in his 
dungeon— 
“Oh! if I could but see a tree! ” 
The Amaranth is the flower of immortality, 
and, in hope perhaps of a future and better 
life, was worn at funerals. Homer tells us 
that the Thessalians wore crowns of Ama- 
ranth at the burial of Achilles. Milton says 
it forms the diadem of the angelic host :-— 
** With solemn adoration down they cast 
Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold— 
Immortal amaranth, a flower which once 
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, 
Began to bloom, but soon, for man’s offence, 
To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows 
And flowers aloft; shading the font of life, 
And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven 
Rolls o’er Elysian flowers her amber stream ; 
With these that never fade the spirits elect 
Bind their resplendent locks, enwreathed with beams.” 














