wtelenium, 
Helenium autumnale. Natura Orver: Composite — Aster Family. 
SOLIS plant is named for the celebrated Helen, a daughter of 
i Jupiter, who was so renowned for her beauty that she was 
seized by Paris, son of Priam, and carried to Troy, thereby 
causing the Trojan war. She is said to have “availed her- 
self of its cosmetic properties.” In medicine it is a tonic, 
produces an insensible perspiration; and it is also made into 
Ba snuff for medical use, which gives it the common name of Sneeze- 
It grows in low ground or moist places in fields and by-ways, 
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Gears. 
HAT gem hath dropp’d, and sparkles o’er his chain? 
The tear most sacred shed for others’ pain, 
That starts at once— bright, pure—from pity’s mine, 
Already polish’d by the hand divine. —Byron. 
AISE it to heaven, when thine eye fills with tears, LEST tears of soul-felt penitence! 
For only in a watery sky appears In whose benign, redeeming flow 
The bow of light; and from the invisible skies Is felt the first, the only sense. 
Hopes glory shines not, save through weeping eyes. Of guiltless joy that guilt may know! 
—Mrs. F. A, Butler. —Moore. 
UT these are tears of joy! to see you thus, has fill’d 
My eyes with more delight than they can hold. 
— Congreve. 
HANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not The mother singing,—at her marriage-bell 
More grief than ye can weep for. That is well— | The bride weeps,—and before the oracle 
That is light grieving! lighter, none befell, Of high-faned hills, the poet has forgot 
Since Adam forfeited the primal lot. Such moisture on his cheeks. 
Tears! what are tears? The babe weeps in its cot, —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
HOU weep’st: O stop that shower of falling sorrows, 
Which melts me to the softness of a woman, 
\ And shakes my best resolves. —Trap. ’ 
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