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(!;U)j|)Oliua l)1ipci"uilolia. Xatuual Order: EiiphorbiaccLV. — Spurge Family. 



\ EBRIGHT is a simple little plant found in dry soils in the 

 United States. It is an annual, about a foot and a half high, 

 with smooth, purple stem, and leaves marked with oblong 

 h lilotches. The blossoms are white, appearing in clusters dur- 

 —^^ mg the summer. A medicine prepared from it was formerly 

 used for diseases of the ej^e. There is also another plant 

 (.ailed E}tbiight, a native of the White Mountains, with bluish-white 

 flowers appearing in spikes. Its classic name is Euphrasia, meaning 

 cheerfulness, in Greek, from the same root as Euphrosyne, one of the 

 three graces. 



four ?^^s ar^ Jcuiilt|ing» 



AND then her look — O, where 's the heart so \vi 

 ■^ Could, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eye 

 Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal, 



Like those of angels. —Moore. 



QOME praise the eyes they lev 



^ As rivaling the western star; 



But eyes I know well worth to i 



A thousand firmaments afar. 



to see. 



-'John Stirling. 



'TTHOSE laughing orbs that borrow 

 ^ From azure skies. the light they weai 

 Are like heaven — no sorrow- 

 Can float o'er hues so fair. 



—.Mrs. Osgood. 



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'INE things to sight required are: 

 The power to see, the light, the visible thing. 

 Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far, 

 Clear space and time, the form distinct to bring. 



-Sir J. Davies. 



T NEVER saw an eye so bright. And sometimes swam in tears; 



And yet so soft as hers; It seem'd a beauty set apart 



It soinetimes swam in liquid light. For softness and for sighs 



ITER eyes, in he; 



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 That birds would ^ 



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