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MISANTHROPY. 
TEASEL. 
Tur flowers of the teasel are bristled with long 
sharp thorns, and the whole plant has an air of 
severity ; yet it is useful and beautiful. The 
clothiers use it to raise the nap upon woollen 
cloths, by means of the crooked awns or chaffs 
upon the heads. 
MODESTY. 
BLUE VIOLET. 
Violets, whose looks are like the skies. 
BARRY CORNWALL. 
Tus beautiful flower is known to all who 
have breathed the pure air of British fields. 
They could not pass along our hedge rows in 
spring without inhaling its fragrant perfume, 
though its tiny head is so completely hid beneath 
its humble foliage that it seldom meets the 
eye of the careless passer by. Yet, although 
unheeded, 
Gentle gales, 
Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense 
Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole 
These balmy spoils. MILTON. 

