p||0S0|r, 



are the pure! Would'st thou be blest? 



spotted soul. Would'st thou find rest? 

 Around thy toils and cares He'll breathe a calm, 

 And to thy wounded spirit lay a balm : 

 FroiTi fear draw love, and teach thee where to seek 

 Lost strength and grandeur with the bowed and meek. 



BLEST are 



pAST my heart's gold 

 ^ And if it comes not 



I'll be a bankrupt to thy hope. 

 Shall shut its gates on me. 



into the furnace flame, 

 thence reiined and pure. 



SHE 

 In 



grew a sweet and sinless child, 



sun and shadow, calm and strife — 



rainbow on the dark of life, 



love's own radiant heaven down smiled. 



^ROM purity of thought all pleasure springs, 

 And from an humble spirit all our peace. 



TIKE bright metal on a sullen ground. 



My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 

 Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, 

 Than that which hath no foil to set it off. 



— Shakespeare. 



IITASH me with thy tears! draw nigh me, 



That their salt may purify me! 

 Thou remit my sins, who knowest 

 All the sinning, to the lowest. 



—From the Greek (trans, by E. B. Bro-.fing'). 



"lOs^^- 



ArET time serves, wherein you may redeem 



\o\w banished honors, and restore yourselves 

 Into the good thoughts of the world again. - Shakesfea 

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1 



CjnSSOpuS otTldnalis. Natural Order: Lablata: — Mitit Fa 



'URING the Jewish dispensation the Israelites used this plant 



their purifications (Exodus xii, 22). It is found in abun- 



"dance on the hills of Palestine near Jerusalem. It is about 



'two feet high, with a bushy stalk, an aromatic smell, and a 



pungent taste. The common species is a native of Europe. It 



landsome plant, having bright blue flowers and delicate leaves. 



|lp It is usually culti\ated for its medicinal properties. The name of this 



W^ plant is deri\-ed from the Hebrew ezub, through the Greek iissopos. 



