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WEET SULTAN, or CENTAURY. Cert, 

 taurea Moschata. Class 19, Syngenesia. 

 Order : Frustranea. This honey-smelling 

 flower, from the Persian fields, as well as 

 " the corn-flower blue," of our own arable 

 lands, is made the happy emblem of feli- 

 ^''k city. 

 Oh ! happiness of sweet retired content, 

 To be at once secure and innocent. 



Denham. 



FELICITY. 



All the good we have rests in the mind ; 

 By whose proportions only we redeem 

 Our thoughts from out confusion, and do find 

 The measure of ourselves, and of our powers : 

 And that all happiness remains confined 

 Within the kingdom of this breast of ours. - 



Daniel. 



That happiness does the longest thrive, 

 Where joys and griefs have turns alternative. 



Herrick. 



'Tis with our souls 

 As with our eyes, that after a long darkness 

 Are dazzled at th' approach of sudden light ; 

 When i' th' midst of fears we are surprised 

 With unexpected happiness; the first 

 Degrees of joy are mere astonishment. 



Denham. 



On earth he first beheld 

 Our two first parents, yet the only two 

 Of mankind in the happy garden placed, 

 Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, 

 Uninterrupted joy — unrivall'd love. 



Milton. 



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