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And, entered in the golden realm of Youth, 

 Fare still a pilgrim toward the copious joys 

 I savored her^ , yet scarce began to sip. . . . 



Coincidently, however, his fatahsm made him absolutely con- 

 temptuous of death, without any affectation of self-sacrifice or 

 any marring trace of mock heroism. 



Each of these dominant mental characteristics is well ex- 

 emplified in his already widely known poem, I Have a Ren- 

 dezvous with Death : 



I have a rendezvous with Death 



At some disputed barricade, 



When Spring comes back with rustling shade 



And apple blossoms fill the air — 



I have a rendezvous with Death 



When Spring brings back blue days and fair. . . . 



God knows 'twere better to be deep 



Pillowed in silk and scented down 



Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep. 



Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, 



Where hushed awakenings are dear. 



But I've a rendezvous with Death 



At midnight in some flaming town, 



When Spring trips north again this year. 



And I to my pledged word am true, 



I shall not fail that rendezvous. 



A. H. 



Juniperus communis on Long Island and Staten Island' 



This is a concise account of the former and present known 

 localities for the juniper, Juniperus communis L., on Long Island 

 and Staten Island. On our island the species, to the best of our 

 knowledge, became extinct on the death, about 1892, of the last 

 of the few individuals that formerly grew in the grove of cedar 

 trees, Juniperus virginiana L., along the beach near New Dorp. 



It is interesting to note that on Long Island there are recorded 

 several widely separated stations where specimens of this locally 

 rare tree are growing. 



A. H. 



* Wm. T. Davis. Torreya 17: 99, /. i. June 1917. 



