2lubrom£&a l)I)pnoil)CS. Natukal Order: Ericacea:— Heath Family. 



EPHEUS, an ancient king of Ethiopia, had a very proud and 

 haughty wife named Cassiopeia, and a daughter Andromeda. 

 His wife was so vain of her beauty that she contested with 

 Juno for the supremacy. For such temerity, Jupiter issued a 

 decree that her daughter should be bound to a rock on the 

 coast, that she might be devoured by sea-monsters. Perseus, 

 a son of Jupiter, and adopted son of the king of Seriphos, undertook an 

 expedition against the Gorgon Medusa, and upon his return discov- 

 ered the luckless Andromeda languishing in the cords that bound her, 

 and after overcoming dangerous obstacles, rescued and married her. Her 

 name was given to a constellation in the heavens, and botanists have also 

 named this little shrub in her honor. 



T ET wit her sails, her oars let wisdom lend; 



The helm let politic experience guide : 

 Yet cease to hope thv short-lived bark shall ride 

 Down spreading fate's unnavigable tide. 







XWILLING I forsook vour friendly state, 

 Commanded bj the gods and forced by fate. 



THOU who freest me t 

 Long lost and wilder'd 

 present still. 



m mv doubtful state, 

 the maze of fate ! 



—Pope. 



—Prior. 



QOME taste the lotus, and forget 

 ^ What life it was thev lived before; 

 And some stray on the seas and set 



Their feet on every happy shore; 



But I — I linger evermore. 



—Ja)tu\^ Afauricf Thomp^t 



pATE steals along with ceaseless tread. 



And meets us oft when least we dread; 

 Frowns in the storm with threatening brow. 



H" 



ERE I 

 Here 

 Break the 



Yet in the si 



walk the sands at eve. 

 n solitude I grieve, 

 .pells we loved to weave. 



-Jame^ Franklin. 



strikes the blow. 



THE d 

 Fv'n 



-Cr.7,./,v. 



ly too short for my d 

 in the zenith of her 

 ne to the color of my 



stress; and ni 

 lark domain, 

 fate. 





