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TULIP TREE. Clou IS. Order 13. The 



Liriodendron tulipifera. An ' orica Tuli P * e . or y e w 



r J poplar, bears a flower resem- 



bling a small tulip, variegated 

 with yellow and orange. The 

 batk of this tree is aromatic, 

 and it is celebrated besides for 

 iu size and beauty. 



FAME. 



Fame's bright star, and glory's swell, 

 In the flowers of the Tulip tree are given. 



Percival. 



SENTIMENT. 



Come! shake your trammels off! let fools rehearse 

 Their loves nnd ruptures in unmeaning chime; 

 Cram close their crude conceits, in mawkish verse, 

 And torture hackneyed thoughts in tuneless rhyme; 

 But tliou shall soar in glorious verse sublime! 

 With heavenly voice of music, strength and fire, 

 Waft wide the wonders of thy native clime; 

 Witli patriot pride each patriot heart inspire, 

 Till Europe's bards are mute before Columbia's lyre. 



'T is true no fairies haunt our ' verdant meads,' 



No grinning imps deform our blazing hearth: 



Beneath the kelpies' fang no traveller bleeds, 



Nt gory vampires taint our holy earth, 



No spectres stalk to frighten harmless mirth, 



Nor tortured demon howls amid the gaie; 



Fair reason checks those monsters in their birth; 



Yet have we lay.of love and horrid tale, 



Would dim the manliest eye, and make the bravest pale. 



And there are scenes to touch the poet's soul, 



And deeds of arms to wake the lordly strain. 



Shall Hudson's billows unregarded roll? 



Has Warren fought, Montgomery died in vain ? 



Shame! that w ile every mountain, shore and plain, 



Hath theme for truth's proud voice, or fancv's wand, 



No native bard the patriot harp hath ta'en, 



But left to minstrel of a foreign strand 



To sing the beauteous scenes of Nature's loveliest land! 



J. R. f^rnfc*. 



