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AeaMly Dightshatle, 
Atvopa Belladonna. Narurar Orver: Solanacee— Nightshade Family. 
7 ATE personified (not as one, but threefold) was described in 
} ancient Greek mythology as three women with robes of 
as" ermine, as white as snow, bordered around with purple. 
‘The first is named Clotho, the second, Lachesis, and the 
third, Atropos (literally, not turning), because she is immuta- 
Kiso ble and unalterable. “To them is intrusted the manage- 
ment of the thread of life: for Clotho draws the thread between 
3 her fingers; Lachesis turns the wheel; and Atropos cuts the thread. 
That is, Clotho gives life and brings into the world, Lachesis deter- 
our lives.” The flower of this plant is of a pale purple, the berries 
of a glossy black, freely charged with a purple juice. The whole 
plant is poisonous, especially the berries. Fortunately it is not 
naturalized in the United States. 
Death. 
EATH is the crown of life: 
Were death deny’d, poor men would live in vain; 
Were death deny’d, to live would not’ be life; mae 
Were death deny’d, ev’n fools would wish to die. 
7 —Young. 
EATH ’s but a path that must be trod, Bi Seg bad man’s death is horror; but the just 
If man would ever pass to God. Keeps something of his glory in his dust. 
—Parnell. —Babbing ton. 
HE world recedes; it disappears! 
Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears 
With sounds seraphic ring. —Pope. 
BREATHE in the face of a maiden, And round them my pinions enclose; 
I kiss the soft mouth of a rose; I love them so well that they die; 
Yet not that I hate them, but love them, Yet my heart with their sorrow is laden, 
\ My black wings are spread forth above them, And sad with their cry. —Ellis. ii 
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