Campanula rotundifolia. Narurat Orver: Campanulacee—Bellwort Family. 
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~ accordingly found in great abundance in the New England 
States and the Dominion of Canada. The family of the 
Campanulas is quite extensive, numbering about five hundred 
species. The flowers, though simple, are various in colors, and are 
worthy of attention. In this species they are blue, which is the pre- 
vailing tint, though others run through different shades of purple, from 
violet to lilac, and white. The Campanula pyramidalis is the hand- 
somest and most stately, growing from three to five feet, blooming the 
second year from the seed, and producing blossoms by the hundred 
A Gaustant Heart. 
HEN come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, 
We will stand by each other however it blow. 
Oppression and sickness, and sorrow, and pain, 
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain. 
— Longfellow. 
O keep one sacred flame With such refined excess, 
Through life unchilled, unmoved, That tho’ the heart would break with more, 
To love in wintry age It could not live with less: 
The same that first in youth we lov’d, This is love — faithful love; 
To ieel that we adore Such as saints might feel above. mie 
HEN all things have their trial, you shall find 
Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind. — shirtey. 
OVE, constant love! OULD genius sink in dull decay, 
~ Age cannot quench it —like the primal ray And wisdom cease to lend her ray: 
From the vast fountain that supplies the day, Should all that I have worshiped change, 
Far, far above Even this could not my heart estrange; 
Our cloud-encircled region, it will flow Thou still wouldst be the first—the first 
.\s pure and as eternal in its glow. That taught the love sad tears have nursed. 
— Park Benjamin. — Mrs. Embury. ‘i 
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