Flora's Lexicon/China or Indian Pink
HINA, or INDIAN PINK. Dianthus. Class 10, Decandria. Order: Digynia. This gaily painted flower we have taken from the fertile soil of the east to decorate our parterres. Its colours are richer than those of the Sweet William, and it continues in flower for a longer period; but its flowers being placed singly on branching stems, like those of the common pink, they never present that fine mass of colour which the large umbel of the Sweet William exhibits, and they are entirely deficient in that fragrance for which the pink is so much admired.
AVERSION.
They say all breathing nature has an instinctOf that which would destroy it. I of theeFeel that abhorrence! If a glistering serpentHiss’d in my path, I could not shudder more,Nor would I kill it sooner—so begone!I’ll strike thee dead else!
Willis.
Ask not which passion in my soul was higher,My last aversion, or my first desire;Nor this the greater was, nor that the less;Both were alike, for both were in excess.
Dryden.
Sooner the olive shall provokeTo am’rous clasps this sturdy oak,And doves in league with eagles be,Ere I will glance a smile on thee.Sooner yon duskish mulberryIn her old white shall clothed be,And lizards with fierce asps combine,Ere I will twist my soul with thine.
Hall.