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YARROW. Cla*l9. Order 11. Native of 



. 5-fijssty: XT 



Plant reputed medicinal. 



CURE FOB THE HEART-ACHE. 



The Yarrow, wherewithal he stopped the wound- 

 made gore. 



Drayto*. 



SENTIMENT. 



Rapture is not the aim of man; in flowers 

 The serpent hides his venom, and the sting 

 Of the dread insect lurks in fairest bowers. 

 We were not made to wander on the wing ; 

 Rut if we would be happy, we must bring 

 Our buoyed hearts to a plain and simple school. 



Percival. 



ANSWER. 



Yes, fair as the siren, but false as her song, 

 The world's painted shadows that lure us along; 

 Like the mist on the mountain, the foam on the deep, 

 Or the voices of friends that we greet in our sleep, 

 Are the pleasures of earth, and I mourn that to heaven 

 I gave not the heart which to folly was given. 



Mrt. Hale. 

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