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JpCipuluS trcimiloibcs. Natural Order: Salicacecv — Wi7/ow Family. 



LEBRATED in ancient lore was Phttton, one of the sons 

 Plicebus Apollo. Epaphus, a reputed son of Zeus and lo, 

 denied that Phaeton was the son of Apollo, whereupon he, 

 ictinij; upon the advice of Clymene, his mother, went to the 

 palace of the sun to test his paternity." Phoebus acknowl- 

 edged him as his son, taking oath that anything he should 

 '^demand as proof should be granted. Phaston, probably desiring to 

 i^excite the envy of Epaphus and to pass in glory before his jealous gaze, 

 o di ive his father's chariot of the sun for one day. Apollo, dis- 

 ma^ ea, but mindful of his inviolable oath, granted the request. Pha;ton 

 ascended with joy, but his steeds ran away, and threatened to set fire 

 to the eaith, whereupon Jupiter killed him with a thunderbolt, and he 

 fell into the river Po. His three sisters mourned him incessantly, and 

 were at last changed into poplars by the pit}' of the gods, and their tears into 

 amber. The Aspen is a species of poplar, whose leaves are attached to the 

 branches by long, slender petioles or leaf-stems, which keep them -tremulous with 

 the slightest breeze. 



TITHY tremblest thou, Aspen? no storm threatens nigh; 



Not a cloud mars the peace of the love-beaming sky; 

 'Tis the spring of thy being — no autumn is near 

 Thy green boughs to wither, thy sweet leaves to sear! 

 The sun, like a crown, o'er thy young head shines free. 

 Then wherefore thus troubled? what fear'st thou, fair tree? 



h DELICATE, frail thing — but made 



For spring sunshine, or summer shade 

 A slender flower, unmeet to bear 

 One AprH shower — so slight, so fair. 



OOSES bloom, and then they wither; 

 '^ Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; 

 Shapes of light are wafted hither. 

 Then, like visions, hiirrv bv. 



-Pcrciral. 



FEELING hearts 



— touch them but 

 ■lodies unheard before 



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