ROSE. 107 
The emblem of all ages, the interpreter of all 
our feelings, the Rose mingles with our festivi- 
ties, our joys, and our griefs. Modesty borrows 
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its delicate blush; it is given as the prize of 
virtue ; it is the image of youth, innocence, and 
pleasure ; it is consecrated to Venus, the god- 
ts dess of beauty, and, like her, possesses a grace 
oven more exquisite than beauty itself. 
“Tht ; Anacreon, the poet of love, has celebrated the 
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male Rose in an ode thus rendered by our English 
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Anacreon : 
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f thishy While we invoke the wreathed spring, 
tistpte Resplendent Rose! to thee we’ll sing ; 
a Resplendent Rose ! the flower of flowers, 
8 DOD Whose breath perfumes Olympus’ bowers ; 
1 of fire Whose virgin blush, of chasten’d dye, 
hat sed Enchants so much our mortal eye. 
sai Oft has the poet’s magic tongue 
; whieh: The Rose’s fair luxuriance sung ; 
§ thesm: And long the Muses, heavenly maids, 
bi Have rear’d it in their tuneful shades. 
ve When, at the early glance of morn, 
¢ frst it sleeps upon the glittering thorn, 
the deliv: ‘Tis sweet to dare the tangled fence, 
he ls To cull the timid flow’ret thence, 
a And wipe, with tender hand, away 
emiblits The tear that on its blushes lay ! 
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