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THYME. Class 14. Order 1. A genus in- 



Thymw serpyllum. di o'* to the South of Europe. 



fj naturalized in America and hug- 



land. Flowers blue and purple; 

 stems creeping. 



TIIRIFTLNESS. 



The thrifty Thyme a home can find, 



Where smiles the sun, and breathes the wind. 



Anon. 



SENTIMENT. 



The churl who holds it heresy to think, 

 Who loves no music but the dollar's clink, 

 Who laughs to scorn the wisdom of the schools, 

 And deems the first of poets first of fools, 

 Who never found what good from science grew, 

 Save the grand truth, that one and one make two, 

 'T is he, across whose brain scarce dares to creep 

 Aught put thrift's parent pair to get, to keep! 



How cold he hearkens to some bankrupt's wo, 

 Nods his wise head, and cries ' I told you so; 

 ' The thriftless fellow lived beyond his means, 

 1 He must buy brants I made my folks eat beans.' 



Sprague. 

 ANSWER. 



Ye may plant the living flowers 



Where the living fountains glide, 

 And beneath the rosy bowers 



Let the selfish man abide: 

 And the birds upon the wing, 



And the barks upon the wave, 

 Shall no sense of freedom bring; 



All is slavery to the slave: 

 Mammon's close-linked bonds have bound him, 



Self-imposed and seldom burst; 

 Though heaven's waters gushed around him, 



He would pine with earth's poor thirst. 



Mrt. Halt. 



