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: RBOR VITjE,or TREE OF LIFE. Thuja. 

 Class 21, Momikia. Order: BfOHADl i.- 

 phia. Thuja, the name of a tree, whoM 

 very durable wood served, according to 

 Theophrastua, to make unagea. Eti roots, 

 in particular, being curiously twisted or 

 veined, were used for the most valuable 

 ornamental works. This plant was probably the Juniperus Oxy- 

 cedruSy very common throughout Greece and the Archipelago, 

 of which it is supposed on good authority that the most ancient 

 statues were made. Our present genus of Thuja has nothing 

 in common with this classical plant, except being an aromatic 

 evergreen tree of the same order, with very durable wood ; but 

 it is not a native of Greece or the Levant. 



LIVE FOR ME. 



"Hafed, my own beloved lord," 



She kneeling cries — " first, last adored ! 



If in that soul thou'st ever felt 



Half what thy lips impassion'd swore, 

 Here, on my knees, that never knelt 



To any but their God before, 

 I pray thee, as thou lovest me, fly, 

 Now, now — ere yet their blades are nigh. 

 Oh haste — the bark that bore me hither 



Can waft us o'er yon darkening shore, 

 East— west — alas, I care not whither, 

 So thou art safe and I with thee ! 

 Go where ye will, this hand in thine, 



Those eyes before me smiling thus, 

 Through good and ill, through storm and shine, 



The world 's a world of love for us ! 

 On some calm, blessed shore we'll dwell, 

 Where 'tis no crime to love too well." 



MOORE. 



