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WHITE ROSE. 
Tue god of silence was represented under the 
form of a young man, with one finger placed on 
his lips, and holding a white rose in the other 
hand. We are told that Love gave him this 
rose to secure his favour. The ancients sculp- 
tured a rose over the doors of their festive halls 
to interdict the guests from repeating anything 
that was spoken. Byron has rendered it sacred 
to the silence of the tomb. In the “ Bride of 
Abydos,” he says, that o’er the tomb of Zuleika 
A single rose is shedding 
Its lovely lustre, meek and pale: 
It looks as planted by despair— 
So white, so faint, the slightest gale 
Might whirl the leaves on high. 
weenerena 
WILD, OR DOG ROSE. 
Tue wild, or common dog rose, has been 
made the emblem of simplicity. It forms 

