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AUREL. Prunus Laurocerasus. Class 

 12, ICOSANDRIA. Order : MONOGYNIA. To 

 wear the crown of laurel, has been the sol- 

 dier's ambition from the earliest ages to 

 the present day ; it is also regarded as the 

 appropriate reward of poets, orators, and 

 philosophers. 



GLORY. 



The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors. 



SPENSER. 



Their temples wreath'd with leaves that still renew : 

 For deathless laurel is the victor's due. 



DRYDEN. 



Real glory 



Springs from the conquest of ourselves ; 

 And without that the conqueror is nought 

 But the first slave. 



THOMSON. 



And should the aspiring man, that makes his gain 

 Of others' hurts, not hurt himself for gain 1 

 Not, when he stabs another for a purse, 

 Prick his own bosom for a dearer price, 

 And wound his heart, to laurel-crown his head. 



BIRD. 



Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, 

 Or let us glory gain, or glory give. 



POPE. 



And glory long has made the sages smile ; 

 'T is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind- 

 Depending more upon the historian's style 

 Than on the name a person leaves behind. 



BYRON. 



