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Srirfius laiust 



Order: Cypcracdc — Sfdffc Family. 



.p'p^^h 



•'V uticoiiinion and peculiar is the appearance of the Bulrush 



yi (.'lubrush. as it is occasionally called, which makes it quite 



► -o n(jticeahle wherever it appears anionj^ other t,^rasses: the 



'//I i\es beini;- tubular, with various line ^n-()o\-es or channels 



_. ..iniiini^ up and down their length. The Lake Bulrush is 



- ^Hhe largest of the species; growing in low lands, nuiddy 



marshes, and on the margins of streams and ponds. hi early times 



It was nuich used in scouring tin. copper and pewter ware, but 



modem <uts having supplied us with nuich better substitutes, it now 



remains unmolested. It was in some species of Bulrush or reed 



found along the borders of the Nile, that the infant Moses was dis- 



co\ ered .uid rescued by the maids of the Egyptian princess. 



Jiibrcistnii. 





OHE will, and she xvil 

 Consents, retracts, a 



IREE things a wise man will not trust: 

 The wind, the sunshine of an .Vpril dav. 

 And woman's plighted faith. I have beheld 

 The weathercock upon the steeple point 

 .Steady from morn till eve. and I have seen 

 The bees go forth upon an April morn, 

 .Secure the sunshine will not end in showers: 

 But when was woman true? —Snnfhi: 



lot — she grants, denies, 

 ances, and then flies. 



—Grami/lf. 



'yHE shepherd told me all his ] 

 ' I ran and told it all again; 

 But Phillis gave herself such airs 

 It fills poor Colin's breast with c 

 .\nd I can hardly tell, I'm sure. 

 If she will grant at last a cure, — 

 T 've told you all. and what think 

 I won't repeat: so tell me — do!- 



IVyl OST fair is e'er most fickle. A fair girl 



Is like a thousand beauteous things of earth. 

 But most like them in love of change. 



pLOUDS turn with < 



They keep us in si: 



Yet oft perverse, like \ 



very wind about: 

 ;pense and doubt: 

 oman-kind. 



—PffrhoM. 



.\re seen to scud against the w 

 Is not this lady just the same.= 

 For who can tell what is her ai 



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