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tHanipanula rotUUllifolia. Natural Order: Ccrmpa/i/t/acca: — Bc/hcor/ Family. 



AMP, cool and rocky places are the favorite abodes of this 

 simple little flower i known also as the Harebell), and it is 

 accordingly found in great abundance in the New England 

 States and the Dominion of Canada. The family of the 

 Campanulas is quite extensi\-e, numbering about five hundred 

 ^pecics. The flowers, though simple, are various in colors, and are 

 worthy of attention. In this species they are blue, which is the pre- 

 \ailing tint, though others run through different shades of purple, from 

 violet to lilac, and white. The Campanula pyramidalis is the hand- 

 somest and most stately, growing from three to five feet, blooming the 

 second year trom the seed, and producing blossoms by the hundred 



% (Banshuil rpcnrl, 



T^HEN* come the wild weatlier, come >leet or come snow, 



* We will stand bv each other however it blow. 

 Oppression and sickness, and sorrow, and pain, 

 Shall be to our true love as links to the chain. 



— Lonsffeltoztj, 



'T'O keep one sacred flame 



^ Through life unchilled, unmoved, 

 To love in wintry age 



The same that first in youth we lov'd, 

 To leel that we adore 



With such refined excess, 

 That tho' the heart would break 



It could not live with less: 

 This is love — faithful love; 

 Such as saints might feel above. 



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HEN all things have tlieir trial. 

 Nothing is constant but a virtu 



shall find 

 lind. —Shirley. 



TOVE, c 

 ^^ Age 



constant love! 

 cannot quench it — like the primal r 

 From the vast fountain that supplies the da 



Far, far above 

 Our cloud-encircled region, it will flow 

 As pure and as eternal in its glow. 



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^ Ar, 



^LD genius sink in dull decay. 

 And wisdom cease to lend her ray: 

 Should all that I have worshiped change, 

 Even this could not my heart estrange; 

 Thou <:till wouldst be the first — the first 

 That (aught the love sad tears have nursed. 

 — Mrs. Embury 



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