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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY EMILY FAITHFULL AND CO.,
Victoria Press, (for the Employment of Women,)

GREAT CORAM STREET, W.C.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

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AN ENGLISH TRAVELLER SAW THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS,

HE SOUGHT A NAME WHEREBY MIGHT BE EXPREST
THE CHIEFEST GLORY OF THIS WORLD OF OURS.
VICTORIA REGIA!-NEVER HAPPIER NAME

A FLOWER, A WOMAN, OR A QUEEN COULD CLAIM!

SO WE THIS TITLE WITH DUE REVERENCE CHOSE
FOR THIS OUR FLOWER, WHICH WE ASPIRE TO LAY
AT HER DEAR FEET ROUND WHOSE DOMINION FLOWS
THE PERFECT LIGHT OF UNDECLINING DAY.

VICTORIA REGIA! MAY OUR BLOSSOM HOLD

IN PURE WHITE LEAVES A LOYAL HEART OF GOLD.

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