Asphadtel, 
Asphodelus luteus. Naturar Orver: Liliacee—Lily Family. 
ERY fine among the family of lilies is the Asphodel, a gar- 
le den plant from the island of Sicily. It is very easily culti- 
vated, and multiplies rapidly. The stem is nearly three feet 
Yi high, and adorned with hollow, three-cornered leaves. The 
Ye b flowers, which are yellow, bloom closely along the stalk, almost 
= covering its whole length. There is also a white variety, a native 
% of Europe. The name is from the Greek, and means not to be 
3 equaled. They planted it beside the tombs, and fancied that beyond 
~ the Acheron the deceased roamed through fields of Asphodel, quafi- 
ing the waters of Lethe. 
Remembered Beyond the Gob. 
HE dead! the much-loved dead! 
Who doth not yearn to know 
The secret of their dwelling-place, 
And to what land they go? 
What heart but asks, with ceaseless tone, 
For some sure knowledge of cts own? 
—Mary E. Lee. 
HEN the summer moon is shining N my left hand I held a shell, 
Soft and fair, All rosy-lipped and pearly red; 
Friends she loved in tears are twining I laid it by his lowly bed, 
Chaplets there. For he did love so passing well 
Rest in peace, thou gentle spirit, The grand songs of the solemn sea. : 
Throned above — Oh! shell, sing well! wild! with a will! 
Souls like thine with God inherit When storms blow loud and birds be still, 
Life and love! —¥ames 7. Fields. The wildest sea-song known to thee! 
—Foaquin Miller. 
ADE! flowers, fade! nature will have it so; 
’Tis what we must in our autumn do! 
And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground, 
The loss alone by those that lov’d them found, 
So in the grave shall we as quiet lie, 
rey 
Miss’d by some few that loved our company. | iF 
—Waller. 
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