MEMOIRS OF THE ROSE.

MEMOIRS OF THE ROSE:

724 B19

COMPRISING

BOTANICAL, POETICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS

Recollections

OF THAT CELEBRATED FLOWER.

IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A LADY.

"If on creation's morn the King of Heaven

To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
O, beauteous ROSE, he had anointed thee,
Of shrubs and flowers, the sovereign lord to be.
The spotless emblem of unsullied truth;
The smile of beauty, and the glow of youth;
The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers."

Hymn of Sappho, by BOYD,

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR FRANCIS WESTLEY,
STATIONERS' COURT, AND AVE-MARIA LANE.