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OOD SORREL. Oxalis. Class 10, Dec- 

 andria. Order: Pentagynia. The wood 

 sorrel, vulgarly called " cuckoo's bread," 

 flowers very freely, about Easter. This 

 pretty little plant shuts its leaves, closes its 

 corollas, and the flowers hang pendent and 

 drooping from the stems. They seem to 

 yield themselves to sleep ; but at the first dawn of day we may 

 say that they are filled with joy, for they throw back their leaves, 

 and expand their flowers; and we doubt not it is on this account 

 that peasants have said that they sing the praises of their Creator. 



JOY. 



Indeed true gladness doth not always speak: 

 Joy bred, and born but in the tongue, is weak. 



JONSON. 



Swell, swell, my joys; and faint not to declare 

 Yourselves as ample, as your causes are. 



JONSON. 



True joy is only hope put out of fear ; 

 And honour hideth error ev'ry where. 



Brooke. 



Wonder and joy so fast together flow, 

 Their haste to pass, has made their passage slow; 

 Like struggling waters in a vessel pent, 

 Whose crowding drops choke up the narrow vent. 



Howard. 



Wise heaven doth see it as fit 



In all our joys to give us some alloys, 



As in our sorrows comforts: when our sails 



Are fill'd with happiest winds, then we most need 



Some heaviness to ballast us. 



Fountain. 



