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"Mtlilet. 





illdilotUS alba. Natural Ordkr: Leguminosa: — Pulse Family. 



r\LL herb, passing tVequL-titly under the cognomen of Sweet- 

 scented Clover, the Melilot used to be cultivated in gardens 

 "idi the fragrance of its foliage, as well as its flowers, which it 

 ictains for a long time in a dried state. By many it was con- 

 sideied as desirable to place among clothing, as the famed 

 Nhuender and roseleaves was by the belles of the last cen- 

 |g,tur> It IS usually about three feet high, and in an uncultivated state 

 lb found in meadows, particularly in soils left by running streams, in 

 l"^"''," which it seems to delight. The flowers are small, arranged up and 

 '%down the stem in the style of a loose raceme, and in color white, 

 with a slight tinge of yellow intermixed. It derives its name from the 

 1^ Greek, and signifies honey lotus. 



|^Hitn%iijt^, 



T WOULD brin: 

 ^ Cure your dis: 



balm, and pour it in your wound; 

 temper'd mind, and lit-al your I'ortun 



AND now philanthropy! thy ray 

 '- *■ Dart round the globe from Zei 



O'er each dark prison play 

 Like 



nbla's to the 1 

 heering light. 



T N faith and hope the world will disagree, 

 ^ But all mankind's concern is charity : 

 All must be false that thwart this one great end, 

 And all of God that bless mankind or mend. 



—Pope. 



T 



HE primal duties shine aloft, like sta 

 The charities that soothe, and heal, 



Are scatter'd at the feet of man, like flowers. 



— Wordsworth. 



YET was she no 

 And wisely m; 



not profuse, but fear'd to waste, 

 managed that the stock might la 



That all might be supplied, and she not grieve 



When crowds appear'd she had not to relieve; 



Which to prevent, she still increased her store; 



Laid up, and spared, that she might the more. 



—Drydcn 



K\ 



when the sickly taper shed 

 Its light through vapors damp confined, 

 Hushed as a seraph's fell thy tread, 

 A new Electra by the bed 

 Of suffering human kind. 

 Pointing the spirit in its dark dismay 

 To that pure hope which fadeth not away. 



