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Stcllaria lUcMa. Natural Order: Caryophyllacea — Pink Family. 



EARLY everywhere north of Mexico the Chickweed may be 

 found generall}' in moist, shady places. It is a small, delicate, 

 P^ grain-like herb. The leaves are oval, the stem round and 

 jointed, and rather procumbent. The flowers are small, 

 ^ white and star-like, whence its botanical name. At night the 

 ^1^'^ leaves, in pairs, close around the young stems. Birds are 

 very fond of picking at the seeds, as well as the green leaves, espe- 

 cially canaries, giving rise to its popular name, Chickweed. The 

 leaves possess certain cooling and nutritive properties that render 

 them desirable for consumptives. They are also useful to alia}- 

 external inflammation, by being moistened and applied warm. 



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T HAVE sought t 

 * I have lain my 



the intensest Avavs to best adore 

 soul's last treasure at your feet; 

 Yet I tremble as in thought I bend before you, 



With abasement and abashment and defeat, 



Knowing veil that all the love I ever bore you 



Is requital weak of worth and incomplete! 



-Edgar Fa 



I'VE se 

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seen grand ladies plumed and 

 leeter maiden — 

 But not a sweeter, fresher maid 

 Than this in homely cotton, 

 Whose pleasant face and silky braid 

 I have not yet forgotten. 



ilked. 



'T'HERE ever is a form, a face. 



Of maiden beauty in my dreams. 

 Speeding before me like the race 

 To ocean of the mountain streams — 

 With dancing hair, and laughing eyes. 

 That seem to mock me as it flies. 



-Chrkt 



Georffitia Rossetti. 



11 lY spirit bows before a nameless shrine, 

 ^'1 Seeking to offer there 

 The heart's devotion to some nymph divine 

 As pure and true as fair. 



-ir. F. Laiige 



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