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SINCERITY. 285 || 
one of the principal flowers in the rustic’s 
bouquet. 
The wild rose scents the summer air, 
And woodbines weave in bowers, 
To glad the swain sojourning there, 
And maidens gathering flowers, 
CLARE. 
Clemence Isaure, who instituted the floral 
games, awarded a single rose as the prize for 
eloquence, 
The standards of the houses of York and 
Lancaster were charged with the bearing of the \ 
wild rose. This flower was also stamped on the 
current coin of those days. 


Thou once was doomed 
Where civil discord braved the field, 
To grace the banner and the shield. 
FABLE OF THE ROSE. i 




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SINCERITY. 
FERN. 
“Fern often affords an agreeable seat to 
lovers ; its ashes are nsed in the manufacture of 
glasses for the convivial party; and all the 
world knows that love and wine make men 
sincere.”’ 






















