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Title: Floral emblems
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838
Subjects: Flower language Flowers in literature Emblems
Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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g thorn. ** And hope, that decks the peasants bower.Shines like the rainbow through the shower: Cunningham. In floral language the hawthorn blossomsare made the happy emblem of Hope, fromthe custom of the Athenian girls crowningthemselves with these flowers at weddings.The altar of Hymen was also lighted withtorches of this tree, which from its gaseousnature, produces a bright flame in its greenstate. * Hope, like the glimmering tapers hght. Illumes and cheers the way,And still, as darker grows the night. Emits a brighter ray, Goldsmith. 170 FLORAL EMBLEMS. HORROR. Creeping Cereus.—Cactus Jiagellifor mis. O sightOf terror, foul and ugly to behold.Horrid to think, how horrible to feel! Milton. This plant, so dangerous to the touch, is fre-quently called the serpent, and from hencethe emblem. Yet Flora has bestowed upon it one of themost beautiful flowers in nature. HOSPITALITY. Oak.—Quercus. the sturdy oak. A princes refuge once. This noble British tree that feeds our herds, ^^^**,
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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 171 shelters our persons, and protects our com-merce, Stems the vast main, and bears tremendous warTo distant nations, or with sovreign sway.Awes the divided world to peace and love. Philips. Receive the shipwreckd on your friendly shore;With hospitable rites relieve the poor. Dry den. HUMANITY. Marsh-mallow.—AlthcEa officinalis. Alas ! when mallows in the garden die. This plant, so celebrated for relieving thewounds of our ancestors, and decorating theirgraves, is also made the emblem of a sweet ormild disposition. ■ enquire the wretched out. And court the office of soft humanity ? 172 FLORAL EMBLEMS. HUMILITY. Broom .—Spartium. Even humble broom and osiers have their use. In the hieroglyphical language of flowers,the broom is made the emblem of Humilityfrom the following historical anecdote. Fulke, earl of Anjou, having been guilty ofsome crime, was enjoined, by way of penance,to go to the Holy Land and submit to cas-tigation. He acquiesced, habited himself inl

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