





62 CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY. 
takes advantage of dubious appearances to cast 
a stigma upon innocence itself. It has been 
observed that the bones of all animals, feeding 
upon it, become red, the hardest parts changing 
first, until the whole substance is coloured ; 
and “if the plant be alternately given and 
intermitted, the bones are found to be coloured 
in concentric circles.” 
CANDOUR. 
WHITE VIOLET. 
Canpour precedes modesty, of which the 
blue violet is frequently used as the emblem. 
The white violet is the same flower, still clothed 
in the robes of innocence. 
CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY. 
MUSK ROSE. 
And each inconstant breeze that blows, 
Steals essence from the musky rose. 
Tus species of the rose lacks freshness. 
Its mean flowers would be entirely without 
effect if they did not grow in panicles, con- 
taining from twenty to one hundred or more. 
