. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. DANDELION. Sad vigils, like a cloistered nun, Till his reviving ray appears. Waking her beauty as he dries her tears.'' The hour when the Dandelion opens and closes being known, it is a shepherd's time-piece; Howitt, speaking of it, says,— " Dandelion, with globe of down. The schoolboy's clock in every town, Which the truant puffs amain, To conjure lost hours back again.'' This globe of down is also the Oracle to every incipient lover of either sex. The youth not yet in his 'teens, mee
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. DANDELION. Sad vigils, like a cloistered nun, Till his reviving ray appears. Waking her beauty as he dries her tears.'' The hour when the Dandelion opens and closes being known, it is a shepherd's time-piece; Howitt, speaking of it, says,— " Dandelion, with globe of down. The schoolboy's clock in every town, Which the truant puffs amain, To conjure lost hours back again.'' This globe of down is also the Oracle to every incipient lover of either sex. The youth not yet in his 'teens, meeting with one of them, begins to tempt his fate. He plucks the seed-stem from the plant, and puffs away the feathered sphere, alternately saying, "She loves me!" "She loves me not!" thinking of the pretty face and sparkling eyes which enchanted his throbbing heart at the last juvenile party. Then, according as one of these sentences is uttered as the last sphere leaves its native station, so is the answer to his anxious inquiry. The response is somewhat like those of the Delphic Oracle, very ambiguous, and capable of being interpreted as the inquirer desires. So he breathes gently or fiercely, softly or sharply, lest the response should dissipate the fond illusion which is adding a new and delicious charm to his young life. 76. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879. London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
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