Columbine, 
Aquilegia Ganadensis. Narurat Orver: Ranunculacee—Crowfoot Family. 
=i, ERHAPS ten varieties of this plant are in cultivation, some of 
© them being our own wild ones naturalized, while others have 
been imported from Siberia, Mexico and elsewhere. They 
are various in color of blossom, usually combining two shades 
or complementary tints in one flower, as red and yellow, blue 
and white, some even having three. The petals are curiously 
spurred, from which they have been compared to the talons of the 
eagle, whence their Latin name, from aguza, an eagle. The resem- 
blance of its flowers to a fool’s cap has given rise to its symbolism. 
Fally. 
EAVE such to trifle with more grace and ease, 
Whom folly pleases, or whose follies please. 
—Pope. 
AME '’S but a hollow echo; gold, pure clay; HAT is social company 
Honor, the darling of but one ‘short day; But a babbling summer stream? 
Beauty, the eye’s idol, but a damask’d skin; * What our wise philosophy 
State, but a golden prison to live in. But the glancing of a dream? 
—Sir Henry Wotten. —Christopher Pearse Cranch, 
THERS the siren sisters compass ’round, 
And empty heads console— with empty sound. 
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—Pope. 
IS passion for absurdity.’s so strong, *HE morning’s blush, she made it thine, 
He cannot bear a rival in the wrong, The morn’s sweet breath, she gave it thee; 
Tho’ wrong the mode comply: more sense is shown And in thy look, my Columbine! 
In wearing others’ follies than our own. Each fond-remember’d spot she bade me see. 
—Young. —Fones Very, 
OO many giddy, foolish hours are gone, 
And in fantastic measures danced away. 
—Rowe. 
HEIR passions move in lower spheres, HUS in a sea of follies toss'd, 
Where'’er caprice or folly steers.  —swift. My choicest hours of life are lost. 
—Swift. a 
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