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Balm ot Gilead, 
Populus candicangs. Natura Orver: Salicacee— Willow Family. 
TILITY and agreeableness are combined in this handsome treé, 
and it is often used, interspersed with others, to break the 
monotony in foliage groups, and yield a grateful shade, for 
which it is well adapted. The height averages from forty to 
fifty feet, the thickness being in good proportion, with an 
® ample crown of dark green leaves. The buds are resinous, 
and possess strong tonic and other medicinal properties, whence they 
are frequently used as a domestic medicine. Populus balsamifera is a 
similar variety, found wild in swamps and other moist places, and is 
called Tacamahac or Balsam Poplar, as it yields a resinous gum from 
the buds in the same manner as the Balm of Gilead. 
Sympathetig Heeling. 
O radiant pearl which crested fortune wears, 
No gem that twinkling hangs from beauty’s ears, 
Not the bright stars which night’s blue arch adorn, 
Nor rising sun that gilds the vernal morn, 
Shines with such luster as the tear that flows 
Down virtue’s manly cheek for others’ woes. 
—Dr, E. Darwin. 
A’ when he read, they forward lean’d, ET a single cup of water, 
Drinking with thirsty hearts and ears Or a crust to feed the starving, 
His brook-like songs, whose glory never wean’d E’en one word in kindness spoken, 
From humble smiles and tears. Or a hand stretched to the falling 
Slowly there grew a tenderer awe, Shall receive as great reward as 
Sun-like, o’er faces brown and hard, 
As if in him who read they felt and saw Saint or martyr at the scaffold. 
Some presence of the bard. —Fames R, Lowell. —Lena I, Gifford. 
Ever hero gained in battle, 
ie is the secret sympathy, 
The silver link, the silken tie, 
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 
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iy In body and in soul can bind. —scoes, 
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