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Thyme-covered Graves. 



The sense of smell in its psychological relations 

 is most subtle : 



" The subtle power in perfume found, 



Nor priest nor sibyl vainly learned ; 

 On Grecian shrine or Aztec mound 

 No censer idly burned. 



" And Nature holds in wood and field 

 Her thousand sunlit censers still ; 

 To spells of flower and shrub we yield 

 Against or with our will." 



Dr. Holmes notes that memory, imagination, 

 sentiment, are most readily touched through the 

 sense of smell. He tells of the associations borne 

 to him by the scent of Marigold, of Life-everlasting, 

 of an herb closet. 



