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rude caresses of Boreas, who, unable to gain 
her love, agitates her until her blossoms are 
half open, and then causes her immediately to 
fade. An anemone, with this motto, “ Brevis 
est usus,”"—“ Her reign is short,” admirably 
expresses the rapid decline of beauty. 
FRIENDSHIP. 
IVY. 
I love the ivy-mantled tower, 
Rock’d by the storms of thousand years. 
CUNNINGHAM. 
Faiturun love secures with a branch of ivy 
the quickly fading roses which adorn the 
brow. Friendship has chosen for its device an 
ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these 
words :—“ Rien ne peut m’en detacher.”’ In 
Greece, the altar of Hymen was surrounded 
with ivy, a sprig of which was presented by 
the priest to a new married spouse, as the 
symbol of an indissoluble knot. The Bac- 
chantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus himself were 
crowned with ivy. Ingratitude has sometimes 
been represented by ivy, as when it attaches 
itself to a young tree it confines the stem, and 
consequently prevents the free circulation of 
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