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ELDER. Class 5. Order 3. Indigonoua to Anier- 



Sambucus nier ica> Kur P e and India - flowers milk. 



white; berries dark purple, medicinal. 

 and so are the leaves and bark. 



COMPASSION. 



The healing Elder, like compassion mild, 

 Lifts her meek flowers amid the pathless wild. 



Anon. 



SENTIMENT. 



The fields for thee have no medicinal leaf, 



Nor the vexed ore a mineral of power; 

 And they who loved thee wait in anxious grief 

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- Death should come 

 Gently to one of gentle mould, like thee, 

 As light winds, wandering through groves of bloom, 



Detach the delicate blossoms from the tree. 

 Close thy sweet eyes calmly and without pain, 

 And we will trust in God to see thee yet again. 



BryanL 



ANSWER. 



My hour has come, I lay me down, 



With the dark grave in view; 

 And, hoping for a heavenly crown, 



I bid the world adieu. 

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 I dreamed of tortures in death's hour, 



Of fevered brain and limb, 

 And of unearthly forms that lower, 



When the eye waxes dim. 

 My dreams in death have other mouHs, 



Forms beautiful and bright 

 Are with inc. 



Jontt. 



