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Jllonorila Mbyma. Xatiral Orper: Labiatcv—Mhtt Family. 



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\ I L H coarser, and less delicate in odor, than the garden 

 V'\^ \ 11 leties, is the Wild Balm, commonly called Mountain Mint, 

 -cand scientifically named, as above, in honor of Monardes, 

 "Spanish botanist of the sixteenth century, who wrote a 

 Ilk on the medicinal virtues of the botanical productions 

 ot the new world. It is a tall, herbaceous plant, found in 

 the htld's and woods, having fragrant leaves and crimson flowers 

 that niipiove under cultivation. In medicine it possesses stimulat- 

 ing and tdrminitive properties. An infusion of the leaves is known 

 a*- Os\\ego tea: and the flowers yield the coloring principle of 

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TlIOl Rl like a Star; for when my wav «; 

 And all was blackness like the skv before 

 y he 

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s cheerless and forlorn, 

 a coming stortii. 

 ve. thy heart of kindness free, 

 soul, and bade its sorrows flee. 



ne for kindred nature^ 

 with our own: 

 For communing-s more full and high 

 Than aught bx mortals known. 



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A XD when the world looked cold on 

 ■'■ ' And blight hung on his name, 

 .She soothed his cares with woman's lo\' 

 And bade him rise again. 



/^UR hearts, my love, were form'd to he 

 The genuine twins of sympathy, 



They live with one sensation; 

 In joy or .grief, but most in love. 

 Like chords in unison they move. 



And thrill with like vibration. ^,\[„„r, 



JOVE'S soft sympathy imparts 

 L* That tender transport of delight 



That beats in 



T/IXDXESS by secret sympathy is 

 ^^For noble souls in nature are allied 



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