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2lccr Saccljariimm. Xatural Order: Accracece— Maple Family. 



ANADA and the New England States produce the Rock 

 Maple in great abundance, forming in some districts a greater 

 ]-iart of the forests. It grows to a great height, has a some- 

 what rough, gray bark, and in summer a fine crown of foliage, 

 which in fall takes on itself the most brilliant hues that 

 greet the eye in an autumn landscape, sporting through all 

 the shades from yellow to crimson, as if it had caught and imprisoned 

 the glorious colors of a sunset sky. The Black Maple is another tree 

 of the same class, both yielding the sap from which the sugar bearing 

 theii name is manufactured. 



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■you know my wishes ever yours did meet: 



If I be silent, 'tis no more but fear 

 That I should s.iy too little when I speak. 



-Lady Care-.'.: 



'T^HE maples in the forest glow; Like living coals the red leaves burn; 



'^ On the lawn the fall flowers blaze; They fall, then turns the red to rust; 



The landscape has a purple haze; They crumble, like the coals, to dust; 



My heart is filled with warmth and glow. Warm he.art, must thou to ashes turn? 



- Sylvester Baxter. 



\H! what delight 'twould be, 



Would'st thou sometimes by stealth converse with me! 

 How should I thy sweet commune prize, 

 And other joys despise! 

 Come, then! I ne'er was yet denied by thee. 



—John Norris. 



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T ABJURE your sight; 



■^ Ev'n from my meditations and my though 



I banish your enticing vanities; 



And, closely kept within my study walls, 



As from a cave of rest, henceforth I'll see 



And smile, but never taste your misery. 



'-Goffe. 



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thou canst feel. 



That thou hast kept a portion back. 



While I have staked the whole; 

 Let no false pity spare the blow, 

 But in true mercy tell me so. 



-Adelaide Anne Procter. 



