Flow'r

Were we to prune Miss Morrison's Silva Rhetoricæ of fœtid Blooms, we might discover three Branches: Upon the First, a Rosy Flow'r of Praise sprouts for Mr. Obama, compleat with Petals for every Virtue; upon the Second grows a Flow'r of Wisdom, copy'd from a Schoolboy's Commonplace Book, & ordin'ry as a Daisy; upon the Last & most Sinister Branch, a Nightshade alarms the Tourist.

"Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Ann Althouse 2008

And off-spring, Bears-foot or the Christmas Flow'r, 124

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Then to my sacred Flow'r with Skill he joyn'd, 880

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The sculpture of a Flow'r is onely shown: [image] [image]

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Himself would seem a Flow'r if motionless, and cheat the Goddess with his gaudy dress.

The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689

[Latin: 680] [130] The most noble Flow'r, to the sight, that grows.

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What wonder then if that bold Flow'r did prove 175

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Into a Pillar; where her Flow'r shou'd be [image] [image]

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Then a gay Flow'r, for shape, the Trumpet nam'd 125

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Jove's 186 Flow'r the Summer, Crocus 187 Autumn sway,

The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689