HFrvitillavia, 
Sritillavia maleagris. Narturat Orver: Liliacee—Lily Family. 
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onl P lilies, this plant is a sister to the crown imperial, already de- 
Y 4 " ; pe, bed, both blooming in the month of May. The flower 
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has sometimes been ‘interpreted “chessboard.” 
throughout Europe. 
It is indigenous 
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It is usually solitary in bloom. In Spain it is 
W called Checkered Lily, and in other places Guinea~-Hen-Flower. 
Persecution, 
HAVE learn’d to endure, I have hugg’d my despair; 
I scourge back the madness that else would invade; 
On my brain falls the drop after drop, yet I bear, 
Lest thou should’st discover the wreck thou hast made. 
—Mrs. E. Oakes Smith. 
HIS you have practiced, 
Practiced on us with rigor, this hath forced us 
To shake our heavy yokes off; and, if redress 
Of these just grievances be not granted us, 
We'll right ourselves, and by strong hand defend 
What we are now possessed of. 
: —Massinger. 
HEY lived unknown 
Till persecution dragged them into fame, 
And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew, 
No marble tells us whither. With their names 
UT what avail her unexhausted stores, 
Her bloomy mountains and her sunny shores, 
With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, 
The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, 
While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, 
And tyranny usurps her happy plains? 
—Addison. 
And history, so warm on meaner themes, 
Is cold on this. She execrates. indeed, 
The tyranny that doomed them to the fire, 
But gives the glorious suff’rers little praise. 
No bard embalms and sanctifies his song; — Couper. 
EITHER bended knees, pure hands held up, 
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, 
4 Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. 
\ — Shakespeare, 
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