THE ASPEN, OK TREMBLING POPLAR. 



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which the holy cross of 

 Christ was made, and on 

 this account they believe its 

 leaves can never more re- 

 main at rest. Its peculiar 

 quivering motion has also 



frequently arrested the attention of the poet, and many 

 allusions to it are made by modern writers, among which 

 none is more beautiful than the well-known lines in 

 Marmion : — 



" Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, 

 Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 

 And variable as the shade 

 By the light quivering Aspen made ; 

 When pain and anguish wring the brow, 

 A ministering angel thou ! " 



The vignette represents one of the Aspens growing upon 

 the Lady's Islet, in Loch Katrine. Our figure from a tree 

 growing 1 at Twizell. 



