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Soi"C|l)Uni nulliarc. Xatuuai, Ohder: Gramincir — Grass Fatnily. 



ARIOUS parts of the United States are fovorable to the culti- 

 ' \ation of this corn, which is manufactured into brooms, con- 

 stituting a special industr}' of most of the Shaker communities, 

 \'' besides many private persons. It looks very much like the 

 Z^'^ Indian corn as regards its leaves and height. When the panicle 

 IS sulficiently mature, the stalk is bent down at the top until ripe 

 enough to cut. It is a native of the East Indies, and has been chosen 

 as an emblem of labor. The Sorghum saccharatum, or Chinese sugar 

 (. me, is supposed to be another variety, which yields a saccharine juice, 

 whence its name; but even this, it is said, does not give a product 

 equal to the crvstallized svrup of the East India species of the same 

 chai acter. 



JaBar. 



TABOR is health. Lo! thu hiisb;uidniaii reaping, 



■*-' How through his veins goes the life current leaping! 



How his strong arm in its stalwart pride sweeping, 



True as a sunbeam the swift sickle guides. —Mrs. Osgood. 



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the fair one, in country or city, 

 Whose home and its duties are dear to the heart, 

 Who cheerfully warbles some rustical ditty, 

 While plying the needle with e.xquisite art. 



— W»odv.'Ortk. 



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AN hath his daily work of bod^ 

 Appointed, which declare his d 

 While other animals inactive range. 

 And of their doings God takes no 



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/^OME, my fair love, our morning task we lose. 

 Some labor e'en the easiest life would choose; 

 Ours is not great, the dangling boughs to crop, 

 Whose too luxuriant growth mw alleys stop. 



'pO till the ground," said Goi 

 ^ ".Subdue the earth, it shall 



How grand, hov 

 How Hise til. 



—Drvdeii. 



mean task 

 Would be as heavy to me as odious; but 

 Tl)e mistress, which I serve, quickens what's dead, 

 lakes my labors pleasures. -shak,-sf,-art. 



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