164 FLORA'S LEXICON. 



OPLAR, WHITE. Popidus Alba. Class 

 22, Dicecia. Order: Octandria. The 



white poplar is one of the most valuable of 

 trees, and grows to the height of more than 

 ninety feet, towering its superb head upon a 

 straight silvered trunk. The ancients con- 

 secrated it to time, because the leaves are 

 in continual agitation ; and being of a blackish green on the 

 upper side, with a thick white cotton on the other ; they were 

 supposed to indicate the alternation of day and night. 



TIME. 



Yes, gentle time, thy gradual, healing hand 



Hath stolen from sorrow's grasp the envenom'd dart; 



Submitting to thy skill, my passive heart 



Feels that no grief can thy soft power withstand ; 



And though my aching breast still heaves the sigh, 



Though oft the tear swells silent in mine eye; 



Yet the keen pang, the agony is gone; 



Sorrow and I shall part ; and these faint throes 



Are but the remnant of severer woes. 



TlGHE. 



".Where is the world," cries Young, " at eighty 1 Where 



The world in which a man was born T' Alas ! 



Where is the world of eight years past 1 'T was there — 



I look for it — 't is gone, a globe of glass ! 



Crack'd, shiver'd, vanish'd, scarcely gazed on ere 



A silent change dissolves the glittering mass. 



Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, 



And dandies, all are gone on the wind's wings. 



Byron. 



The greatest schemes that human w r it can forge, 

 Or bold ambition dares to put in practice, 

 Depend upon our husbanding a moment. 



Rowe. 



