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Thuja occidentalis. Naruray Orver: Contfera — Pine Family. 
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4: HIS tree is almost identical with the White Cedar, and is 
li; frequently mistaken for it. It is very abundant along the 
rocky shores of lakes, rivers, and swamps of the northern 
parts of the United States and the Canadian provinces. The 
trunk is crooked and covered with evergreen foliage from 
bottom to top, the branches diminishing in length toward the 
The wood is very light and soft, yet it is said to be durable. 
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The classical name is derived from the Greek word thuo, I sacrifice, 
GOhing tH Death. 
O we grew together, 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, 
But yet a union in partition, 
Two lovely berries molded on one stem; 
° ‘So with two seeming bodies, but one heart. 
—Shakespeare. 
F life for me hath joy or light, My heart, ev’n ere I saw those eyes, 
Tis all from thee; Seem’d doom’d to thee; 
My thoughts by day, my dreams by night, Kept pure till then from other ties, 
Are but of thee, of only thee; ”T was all for thee, for only thee. 
Whate’er of hope or peace I know, Like plants that sleep till sunny May 
My zest in joy, my balm in woe, Calls forth their life, my spirit lay, 
To those dear eyes of thine I owe; Till touch’d by love’s awak’ning ray, 
’Tis all from thee. It lived for thee, it lived for thee. 
—Moore. 
CHANGE but in dying! the trials of earth 
May gather around me and darken my path, 
But true as the needle, which points to the pole, 
Will my heart turn to thee—thou beloved of my soul. 
—T. Drew. 
HE task befits thee well, UT green above them 
To gather firmness as the tempests swell Thy branches grow; 
Around me still, companion, wife and friend, Like a buried love, or a vanish’d joy, 
‘ To cling in fond endurance to the end. Link’d unto memories none destroy. 
it —Victor Hugo. —Miss Fewsbury. i 
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