

FLORA'S LEXICON. 



RBOR VIT^E, or TREE OF LIFE. Thuja. 

 Class 21, MONGECIA. Order : MONADEL- 

 PHIA. Thuja, the name of a tree, whose 

 very durable wood served, according to 

 Theophrastus, to make images. Its roots, 

 in particular, being curiously twisted or 

 veined, were used for the most valuable, 



ornamental works. This plant was probably the Juniperus Oxy- 

 cedrus, 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 worli! of love for us! 

 On some calm, blessed shore we'll dwell, 

 Where 'tis no crime to love too well." 



MOORE. 



