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Carn Cockle. 
Agrostemma githags. Narurar Orper: Caryophyllaceea— Pink Family. 
F ROWING uncultivated in fields of grain, this plant is nearly 
=~ allied to the species of Lychnis that are grown in the flower 
garden. The stem is from two to three feet high, with foliage 
of a pale green, and the leaves three or four inches in length. 
= The flowers are rather pretty, though not brilliant, being in 
* color somewhat of a dull purple. Its name, Agrostemma, 
Clorth aboug Beauty. 
FATAL beauty! why art thou bestow’d 
On hapless woman still to make her wretched? 
Betrayed by thee, how many are undone. —Patterson. 
EAUTY, like ice, our footing does betray; 2'TIS not a set of features or complexion 
Who can tread sure on the smooth, slip’ry way? The tincture of a skin I admire, 
Pleased with the passage, we glide swiftly on, Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, 
And see the dangers which we cannot shun. Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. 
—Dryden. . — Addison. 
HY did the gods give thee a heavenly form, 
And earthly thoughts to make thee proud of it? 
Why do I ask? ’Tis now the known disease 
That beauty hath, to bear too deep a sense 
Of her own self-conceived excellence. —Fonson. 
EAUTY, my lord, ’tis the worst part of woman, HINK not, ’cause men flat’ring say, 
A weak, poor thing, assaulted ev’ry hour Y’ are fresh as April, sweet as May, 
By creeping minutes of defacing time; Bright as the morning star, 
A superficies, which each breath of care That you are. —Carew. 
Blasts off; and ev’ry hum’rous stream of grief, 
Which flows from forth these fountains of our eyes EAUTY is excell'd by manly grace, 
Washeth away, as rain doth winter’s snow. And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. 
—Goffe. —Milton, 
EAUTY, fair flower, upon the surface lies, 
But worth with beauty soon in aspect vies. —Sappho. 
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