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SUMACH, VENICE. Class 5. Order 3. A pretty exten- 

 RIlUS COtinuS. 8ive g enus > an<1 found " a " temperate 



climates. The species cultivated in 

 gardens has elongated, feathery foot- 

 stalks. Flowers greenish or purplish; 

 berries red. The leaves and stalks, 

 when bruised, aromatic. 



INTELLECTUAL EXCELLENCE. 



Yes, charms may live when youth is past, 

 More pure than decked its brightest hours; 



Like Rhus, that shows, in autumn's blast, 

 A fruitage fairer than the flowers 



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SENTIMENT. 



Ay, for the soul is better than its frame, 

 The spirit than its temple. Beauty gives 

 The features perfectness, and to the form 

 Its delicate proportions: she may stain 

 The eye with a celestial blue the cheek 

 With carmine of the sunset; she may breathe 

 Grace into every motion, like the play 

 Of the least visible tissue of a cloud: 

 She may give all that is within her own 

 Bright cestus and one glance of intellect, 

 Like stronger magic, will outshine it all. 



The glory of the human form 

 Is but a perishing thing, and Love will droop 

 When its brief grace hath faded. But the mind 

 Perisheth not, and when the outward charm 

 Hath had its brief existence, it awakes, 

 And is the lovelier that it slept so long. 



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