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WATER LILY. 



HOSE who love to walk beside 

 the little bays and inlets of al- 

 pine lakes, at that glorious hour 

 when the rising sun lights up a purple glow 

 on the mountains' tops, may see the elegant 

 water-lily gradually unfolding her splendid 

 white or pinkish flowers : 



" The water hly to the light 

 Her chalice rears of silver bright." 



Emulating her sister lily, the sacred Lotus 

 of the Nile, she arises from off the water, 

 and throws back her petals as the sun gains 

 an ascendency ; till at length she is seen 

 floating on the bosom of the lake, and beau- 

 tifully reflecting the warm beams of the 

 meridian sun. Thus calmly floating, whe- 



