The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-19
NUMBER 296.
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THE RosE-coNTrNuEp.


Its way to every heart. Grave and gay,
high and low all unite in their admira-
ton of the queen of the flowers; all
poets pay it. in their poems and songs,
the most fiattering compliments: all dis
tribute to it incense as they would to a
benevolent divinity. On the origin and
color of the rose there are many differ
ent opinions. The Greek poets say that
all the roses bore originally white flow
ers, but the larger proportion had their
blossoms changed TO red from being in
strumental in shedding the blood of
Venus, for that when rushing to the aid
of Adonis in his extremity, the rose
trees lacerated the feet of the goddess,
and thus the flowers became imbued
with the crimson strain, hence it would
seem that the wild rose is a descendant
of the original stock, guiltless of the
wounds inflicted. Anakreon tells US
that the rose first originated when Venus
arose out of the sea, as some of the foam
dropped on the shore and from that germ
there arose rose bush. Napier mar
rates the following: Rhodante, queen
of Corinth, had TO flee into the temple of
of Diana as she was prosecuted by Bri-
anos, Arkas and HelesInos on account of
her great beauty, and Apollo, who was
angry at this, changed her into a rose.
Although the rose is easily disfigured,
still 1t always remains the most beauti-
full emblem of innocence and gentleness.
Already in Catulla's lines, ut fios ct
coeptis' this is confirmed Ariosto also
gives in his poem, la virginella ALA
Rosa, the fair sex useful advice. An
akreon and Sappho said of the rose that
it was the tender care of the spring and
the delight of mortals. Moore alludes
to it:
Rose, thou art the fondest child
OF dimpled spring, the wood nymph wild.'
The month of June has been called
the month of roses" for June is the
queen of the months; ii is the spring of
summer and probably the most enioya-
ble time of the year. The days are at
their utmost limit, the morning frageant
with the breath of flowers, the noontide
sunshine scarcely as yet oppressive with
heat and the evening full of calmness and
beauty, the clouds tinted with the rich
est coloring until the twilight comes on,
to which Byron adds:
And now the change-a pale shadow
strews
Its mantle DER the mountains; parting day
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang i'm
btes
With new color as it gasps away
The last still lovliest till-'tis gone and all is
gray"
been used as the object of valuable
comparison by Moore who says:
Rose of the desert, thou whose blushing ray
Lonely and lovely fleets unseen away
No hand 20 Gull thee, none TO woe thy sigh
! In vestal silence left to live and die
Rose of the desert. thus should woman be
Shining uncourted, lone, safe, like thee
Rose of the garden, how unlike thy doom
| Destined for others, not thyself. TO bloom
Guild ere thy beauty lives through half its
! A moment CHERISHED then cast away:
Rose of the gardeni such is woman's lot
Worshipped, while blooming-when she fades
forgot
Tsnnyson alludes to the first rose:
Now is the pride of youth
Piuming the woods and the first rose appears
And summer from the chambers OF the South
is coming up TO wipe away all tearsl
Another poet discriminates the rose
| as follows:
The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me
Too many eyes are gazing
| Upon the costly tree.
But there's a rose in yonder glen
That shuns the eyes of men,
| For me it's bloom raising
o, that's the rose for me.
Aphtonius states that the incarnate
rose arises from the blood of Venus while
others take it from the ancestors of
Cupid to which Philostrates also agrees
| for he says that on that account the
rose was dedicated to love. Harpocrates
received the first rose from Cupid
under the condition that he would rot
betray the intrigues of Cypris and for
that reason the white rose was used as
symbol of secrecy. Thessalian conjur-
ors extracted from the rose a sort Of love
potion. Antiochus reposed upon silk
and rose leaves. Publius Cornelius Scipio
and Scipio .Emilianus decorated the
trophies of their soldiers with roses.
Cicero reproaches Verres with the ex-
travagant luxury of making the tour OF
Sicily in bower of roses decked and
garlande1 with the flowers. Cleopatra
was said to have expended an Egyptian
talent (S1 ,000) in the adornmsnt of q
banqueting room with roses for a single
night. The renounced Abdulcati has td
thank a rose leaf for the permission OF
entering Baylon. The Sultan SaIadin
would not enter into the mosque in
Jerusalem before the walls had been
washed with rose water. Mohamed
did the same in the year 1876. To WHOM
amongst us are not known the quarreli
between the houses of York and Ian
caster, which took place in the veal
1851 to 1871 in England. known as the
War of the Roses. The pope consecrated
on Sunday, Dominica in rosa" q
golden rose, which was given to princes
! only. On the hatchets of the secret
court was engraved dagger and /
J knight holding rose bush in his hand
The rose is also to be found on differen
coats of arms and coins. The order o
roses which Pedro /. introduced is &C
, knowledged as the most beautiful. Ii
opposition to tins the Duke of Chartre.
established the immoral orderof Rosecru
clan. The rose of 1880 produced tn
!; bloody crown of 1898. in different part
2 of Europe they have the so called feast
: Of roses. Architects and workmen dee