The Floral Fortune-teller/Purple Flowers

 

PART III.

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PURPLE FLOWERS.

Describing your Worldly Fortune.

 

ASTER.

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Tho’ poor in gear, ye ’re rich in love.

Burns.

You will be—schoolmaster.

Shakspeare.

BACHELOR’S BUTTON.

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A savory dish, a homely treat,
Where all is plain, where all is neat.

Dryden.

Poor as a miser.

Byron.

COLUMBINE.

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Three months with one and six months with another.

Wordsworth.

To catch dame Fortune’s golden smile,
Assiduous wait upon her.

Burns.

DAHLIA.

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Wondrous rich.

Wordsworth.

Argosies—laden with spice and silks.

Marlowe.

EVERLASTING PEA.

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No revenue hast thou but thy good spirits
To feed and clothe thee.

Shakspeare.

———To cast and balance at a desk,
Perched like a crow upon a three-legged stool.

Tennyson.

FOXGLOVE.

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Thy boat sails freely both with wind and stream.

Shakspeare.

Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough.

Shakspeare.

GERANIUM.

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Mid the agitated billows of life thou maintainest a steadfast heart.

Goethe.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich.

Shakspeare.

LADY’S SLIPPER.

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Infinite riches in a little room.

Marlowe.

Double, double,
Toil and trouble.

Shakspeare.

LILAC.

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An industrious life and ample means.

Wordsworth.

A hundred milch-kine to the pail,
Six score fat oxen standing in the stalls,
And all things answerable to this portion.

Shakspeare.

MILKWEED.

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Bed of straw, and blanket walls.

Byron.

A miser, hoarding heaps of gold,
But pale with ague fears.

Hood.

MONKEY FLOWER.

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Tend the sick, or educate the young.

Dryden.

Friends, books, a garden, and perchance
Delightful industry enjoyed at home.

Cowper.

NIGHTSHADE.

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Love in a hut, with water and a crust.

Keats.

Rural life in all its joy
And elegance, such as Arcadian song
Transmits from ancient, uncorrupted times.

Thomson.

ORCHIS.

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Open house and ready fare.

Wordsworth.

About two hundred pounds a year.

Butler.

PANSY.

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House within the city,
Richly furnished with plate and gold.

Shakspeare.

A prosperous man, thriving in trade.

Wordsworth.

PETUNIA.

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Peace, and comfort, and domestic bliss.

Southey.

You can make no marriage present,
Little can you give your wife;
Love will make your cottage pleasant.

Tennyson.

POLYANTHOS.

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An elegant sufficiency; content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labor, useful life,,
Progressive virtue and approving Heaven.

Thomson.

Listening senates hang upon thy tongue.

Thomson.

POLYGALA.

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From place to place, dwelling in no place long.

Lamb.

To roam along, the world’s tired denizen.

Byron.

RHODORA.

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Whatever
Exalts, embellishes, and renders life
Delightful.

Thomson.

To turn the furrow, and to guide the tool
Mechanic.

Thomson.

THISTLE.

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Happy labor, love and social glee.

Thomson.

A pedlar’s pack, that bows the bearer down.

Cowper.

WILLOW HERB.

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An empty purse, * * *
* * * No money in it.

Shakspeare.

How can he expect that others should
Build for him, sow for him, and at his call
Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

Byron.