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UljOLlOra CCuUrtLtCllsis. Nailral Ohder: Er/cacciC — Heath Family. 





- to be most Irequently met with, growing in moist places 

 mong the mountains, or in the bogs. It is very handsome 



-If •nil i^-T i.s in Canada and the New England States that the Rhodora 



W^ * ,^ ^ ^^ l^t-'n i'l bloom, as each branch bears on its tip a cluster of 

 ^ ifl ^'~0 l^ stemless flowers while there is yet no foliage visible. After 

 the blossoming season is over, the leaves make their appear- 



ance. The shrub i 

 the Rhododendron, 

 rose. 



from two to three feet high, is closely allied to 

 id derives its name from its resemblance to the 



E bloom of opening flowers' unsullied beaut_\ 

 Softness and sweetest innocence she wears, 



And looks like 



first spring. 



TN Mav 

 A I four 



vhen 



found tl 



winds pierced our solitudes, 

 1 Rliodora in the woods. 

 Spreading its leafless bloom in a damp nook, 

 To please the desert and the sluggish brook : 

 The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 



Made the black waters with their beauty gav 



Here might the redbird come his plumes to cool 



And court the flower that cheapens his arr.ay 



Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why 

 This charm is wasted on the marsh 

 Dear, tell them, that if eyes were made for seeing. 

 Then beauty is its own excuse for being. 

 Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose I 



I never thought to ask; I never knew. 

 But in my simple ignorance suppose [you. 



The .selfsame Power brought me there, bro't 

 -Na/fi/, Wn. 



r\ MAIDEN! silent sitting, 



^ Braiding still thy golden hair; 



Round thy head the bees are flitting. 



Deeming thee a \\\y fair. —g. Hamlin. 



id sk\ 



Emerson. 



AH! thou wonder among women, 

 ■^ I am fretted to the heart. 

 Thinking how my words are few 



To depict thee as thou wert: 

 What I will, I cannot do! 



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—Ho-.-Mird Glyildon 



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