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Itjemir. 



lHauuabls satioa. Natural Order: Urtkacca—Xcttlc Family. 





\ABIS (Greek and Latin for Hemp) is a common and 



11 -known plant, naturalized in waste places in the United 



itts. It came originally from Persia and the East Indies, 



V wliLre the natives make an intoxicating beverage from it. In 



ome States it is largely cultivated for the fiber of the stalks. 



and when properly prepared is manufactured into the coarser 



lades of toweling and ropes. It grows quite tall and erect, branching 



Lsyat inter\als, having foliage that is sharply cleft and palmate, giving the 



rill ^ whole plant a light, airy appearance. The flowers are green, and the 



1^ -iceds are ciowded up and down the summits of the branches. It is 



'^idk'*'^ \ei\ approjiriate for sowing along fences, and is admirable for forming 



^\-^ sucen^ to --hut off unsightly objects in a rear yard. In the fall, the 



.■¥i >>(.Lds attiait the dear little birds, which sometimes visit them in large 



' flocks, ali^i the frost and late season have exhausted other sustenance. 



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EA\''N from all creatures hides the book of late, 

 All but the page prescribed their present state. 



'HE Fates but only spin 

 The finest of the wool 



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\T fate imposes, men 



It boots not to resis 



both wind and tide 

 -Shakcsfmr, 



'T'HY downcast looks, and thy disorder'd thoughts 



Tell me my fate : I ask not the success 

 Mv cause has found. 



OUPREME, all- wise, eternal Potentate! 

 ^ Sole Author, sole Disposer of our fate. 

 Enthroned in light and immortality. 

 Whom no man fully sees, and none can see! 



P.\TE, show thy force; 

 Wliat is decreed mus 



Original of beings! Power divine! 

 .Since that I live, and that I think, is thine! 

 Benign Creator! let thy plastic hand 

 Dispose its own effect. —Mallliezi' Prior. 



oin-selves we do not owe; 

 be; and be this so. 



