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108 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
*Tis sweet to hold the infant stems, 
Yet dropping with Aurora’s gems, 
And fresh inhale the spicy sighs 
That from the weeping buds arise. 
When revel reigns, when mirth is high, 
And Bacchus beams in every eye, 
Our rosy fillets scent exhale, 
And fill with balm the fainting gale ! 
Oh, there is nought in nature bright Sie may De te 
Where Roses do not shed their light ! ey ete 
When morning paints the orient skies, ' ’ 
Her fingers burn with roseate dyes. 
And when, at length, with pale decline, jr I 
Its florid beauties fade and pine, 
Sweet as in youth, its balmy breath 
Diffuses odour e’en in death! 
O, whence could such a plant have sprung? 
Attend—for thus the tale is sung ;— I 
When humid from the silvery stream, — 
Effusing beauty’s warmest beam, ’ 
Venus appeared in flushing hues, 
Mellowed by Ocean’s briny dews ; 
When, in the starry courts above, 
The pregnant brain of mighty Jove aa 
Disclosed the nymph of azure glance— ves 
The nymph who shakes the martial lance— 
Then, then, in strange eventful hour, 
The earth produced an infant flower, legion of 
Which sprung: with blushing tinctures dress’d, a 
And wanton’d o’er its parent breast. ” 
The gods beheld this brilliant birth, 
And hailed the Rose, the boon of earth ! 








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