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THE FLORAL

ROSE.



As fresh as the morning, the fairest in May;
As sweet as the evening among the new hay;
As blithe and as artless as the lambs on the lea.

Burns.



 

A merrier man, within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour’s talk withal.

Shakspeare.