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Artemisia absintl)Ullll. Natural Order: Conipositit — Aster Family. 



KTEMISIA (so called in honor of the goddess Artemis, the 

 Greek equivalent of the Roman Diana ^, or, in our vernacu- 

 • lar. Wormwood, is an intensely bitter plant, and has very 

 powerful medicinal properties. Its flowers are yellow, and it 

 ^ is to some extent naturalized in the mountainous districts 

 , ."^ of our Northern States. Columella, the Latin writer on 

 agiiLulture of the first century of our era, mentions both the plant 

 and absmthites, or Wormwood wine; and the celebrated Greek med- 

 ical and botanical writer, Dioscorides, also speaks of it perhaps a 

 century later. The Roman Wormwood is the kind usually found in 

 ur gardens, and is a native of Austria and other parts of Europe. 



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E flowers that droop, forsaken by the spring; 

 Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing; 



Ye trees that fade when autumn heats remove: 



Say, is not absence death to those who love? —Pope. 



TIKE as the culver on the bared bough, 



Sits mourning for the absence of her mate, 

 And in her songs sends many a wishful vow 

 For his return that seems to linger late: 



So I, alone now left, disconsolate. 



Mourn to myself the absence of my love; 



And, wandering here and there all desolate, [dove. 

 Seek, with my plaints, to match that mournful 



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QHORT absence hurt him more, 

 ^ And made his wound far greater than before; 

 Absence not long enough to root out quite 

 All love, increases lo\e at second sight. 



— Thomas May- 



rVA Absence! by thy stern decree 



^ How many a heart, once light and free, 



Is fill'd with doubts and fears! 

 Thy days like tedious weeks do seem. 

 Thy weeks slow-moving months we deem, 



Thy months long-lingering years. 



"11 THAT tender strains of pa 

 • • The pangs of absence to 



1 can imp 

 ) an amorous 1 

 of language p 



Far, far too faint the pow 

 Language, that slow interpreter of love! 

 Souls paired like ours, like ours to union 

 Converse by silent sympathy of thought. 



«rougl 

 Pattison, 



