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!2li']uilci'lirt ^JIuuu^Cllsis. Natural Order: Raniiiiculacca: — Cro-vfoot Family. 



ERHAPS ten varieties of this plant are in cultivation, some of 

 ? them being our own wild ones naturalized, while others have 

 been imported from Siberia, Mexico and elsewhere. They 

 are various in color of blossom, usually combining two shades 

 or complementary tints in one flower, as red and yellow, blue 

 and white, some even having three. The petals are curiously 

 spurred, from which they have been compared to the talons of the 

 eagle, whence their Latin name, from aqiiila, an eagle. The resem- 

 blance of its flowers to a fool's cap has given rise to its symbolism. 



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THERS the siren sisters compass 'round. 

 And empty heads console — with empty sound. 



TTIS passion for absurdity 's so strong, 



He cannot bear a rival in the wrons 



Tho' wrong the mode comply : more sense 



In wearing others' follies than our own. 



T^HE morning's blush, she made it thine. 



The morn's sweet breath, she gave it thee: 

 And in thy look, my Columbine! 



Each fond-remember'd spot she bade me see. 



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OO many giddy, foolish hours are gone, 

 And in fantastic measures danced awav. 



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'T^HEIR passions move in 

 *■ Where'er caprice or folly 



spheres, 



'T'HUS in a sea of follies toss'd, 



Mv choicest hours of life are lost. 



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