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COTCH FIR. Pinus Syhestris. Class 21, 

 MONCECIA. Order: MONADELPHIA. The 

 Scotch fir, taking all things into considera- 

 tion, is esteemed the most valuable of the 

 pines. It is the only one indigenous in the 

 north and west of Europe, and grows abun- 

 dantly in all the countries north of the Bal- 

 tic, to the seventieth degree of latitude. 



ELEVATION. 



Thy throne a rock ! thy canopy the skies ! 

 And, circled in the mountain's dark embrace, 

 'Mid what stern pomp thy towering branches rise! 

 How wild, how lonely is thy dwelling-place ! 

 In the rich mead a God of love we trace, 

 We feel His bounty in the sun and shower ; 

 But here His milder glories shun our gaze, 

 Lost in the one dread attribute of power. 

 I cannot choose but wish thou hadst a fairer bower. 



Yet to the scene thy stately form doth give 

 Appropriate grace ; and in thy mountain-hold, 

 Like flowers with zephyrs " at the shut of eve," 

 Thou with the storm hast dallied from of old. 

 But stateliness of form and bearing bold 

 Are not thy only boast: there dwells in thee 

 A soft, sweet spell (if we be rightly told), 

 Which waiteth but the touch of harmony, 

 To smooth the brow of care, and make e'en sorrow flee. 



ANON. 



He above the rest 



In shape and gesture proudly eminent 

 Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost 

 All her original brightness, nor appear'd 

 Less than archangel ruin'd. 



MILTON. 



