1 164 FLORA'S LEXICON. 



OPLAR, WHITE. Popidus Alba. Class 

 22, DKECIA. Order: OCTANDRIA. The 



white poplar is one of the most valuable of 

 trees, and grows to the height of more than 

 ninety feet, towering its superb head upon a 

 straight silvered trunk. The ancients con- 

 secrated it to time, because the leaves are 

 in continual agitation ; and being of a blackish green on the 

 upper side, with a thick white cotton on the other ; they were 

 supposed to indicate the alternation of day and night. 



TIME. 



Yes, gentle time, thy gradual, healing hand 



Hath stolen from sorrow's grasp the envenom'd dart; 



Submitting to thy skill, my passive heart 



Feels that no grief can thy soft power withstand ; 



And though my aching breast still heaves the sigh, 



Though oft the tear swells silent in mine eye; 



Yet the keen pang, the agony is gone; 



Sorrow and I shall part; and these faint throes 



Are but the remnant of severer woes. 



TlGHE. 



"Where is the world," cries Young, "at eighty! Where 

 The world in which a man was born T' Alas ! 

 Where is the world of eight years past 1 'T was there 

 I look for it 't is gone, a globe of glass ! 

 Crack'd, shiver'd, vanish'd, scarcely gazed on ere 

 A silent change dissolves the glittering mass. 

 Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, 

 And dandies, all are gone on the wind's wings. 



BYRON. 



The greatest schemes that human wit can forge, 

 Or bold ambition dares to put in practice, 

 Depend upon our husbanding a moment. 



ROWE. 



