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Humility. 
UMBLE we must be, if to Heaven we go; 
High is the roof there, but the gate is low; 
Whene’er thou speak’st, look with lowly eye ~ 
Grace is increased by humility, —Robert Herrick. 
HE cedar’s shade like a cloud may lie Appear to press the lowly, 
Athwart the lily’s brightness — Yet never may the shadow stay 
Yet why complain? it leaves no stain Where Faith, like blossom holy, 
To mar the blossom’s whiteness; Keeps white the heart; to such there will be given 
And darkly thus may pride and power A blest assurance of the love of Heaven. 
. —Mrs. Hale, 
UMILITY is the eldest-born of virtue, AM content to touch the brink 
And claims the birthright at the throne of Of the other goblet, and I think 
heav’n. —Murphy. My bitter drink a wholesome drink, 
Because my portion was assigned 
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EAVEN S gates are not so highly arched Wholesome and bitter. Thou art kind, 
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As princes’ palaces; they that enter there And I am blesséd to my mind. 
' Must go upon their knees.  —ohn Webster. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. | 
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Dvoaam. 
@enista tinctoria. Narurat Orper: Leguminosa — Pulse Family. 
HIS is a perennial shrubby plant, about a foot high, bearing 
bright yellow flowers in the axils of the leaves or branches, 
blooming singly, and on short stems, in May and June. 
Cowper speaks of its blossoms as “yellow and bright as 
bullion unalloyed,” and Mary Howitt says: 
“But ne’er was flower so fair as this, 
In modern days or olden; 
It groweth on its nodding stem 
Like to a garden golden.” 
It is a native of Europe, but is found naturalized in some parts of 
the United States, and is useful to the dyer in forming a yellow dye, 
