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enliven the months so adverse to the reign of 

 Flora. 



With a hope of being allowed to meet our 

 friends again, we close the Flora Historica with 

 the lines of Waller : 



** Fade, flou'crs ! fade ; nature will have it so ; 

 'Tis but what we must in our autumn do ! 

 And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground, 

 Tlie loss alone hy those that lov'd them found ; 

 So in the grave shall we as quiet lie, 

 Miss'd by some few that lov'd our company : 

 But some so like to thorns and nettles live. 

 That none for them can, when they perish, g^rieve.' 



