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flourish in those of ruined towers, or ornament 
the mouldering tablet which records the names 
of those now almost forgotten by surviving 
relatives, 
For this obedient zephyrs bear 
Her light seeds round yon turret’s mould, 
And, undispersed by tempest, there 
They rise in vegetable gold, 
LANGHORNE. 
Not seldom do we observe a solitary wall- 
flower growing in the falling towers of an ancient 
castle, where it seems to place itself to conceal 
the unheeded injuries which the barbarians of 
feudal ages had recklessly done to the battle- 
mented pile. Scott says, 
And well the lonely infant knew 
Recesses where the wall-flower grew, 
And honeysuckle loved to crawi 
Up the low crag and ruined wall. 
I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade 
The sun in all his round surveyed. 
We are told that the minstrels and trouba- 
dours of former days carried a branch of wall- 
flower as the emblem of an affection which 
continues through all the vicissitudes of time, 
and survives every misfortune. During the 
reign of terror in France, the violent populace 
precipitated themselves towards the abbey of 
St. Denis, to disinter the ashes of their kings 

