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teliotrope, 
Heliotropium Peruvianun, Natura OrvEr: Boraginacee —Borage Family. 
LIOTROPE is a small and elegant shrub about two feet 
high, a native of Peru. The flowers bloom in clusters, and 
are of a delicate lavender or purple tint, with the fragrance 
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Yj, of vanilla, and are especially desirable for bouquets. It is 
Bp said that Clytie, who had been loved and deserted by 
Apollo, seeing his attachment for her sister Leucothea, 
pined away, with her eyes gazing continually upon the sun, and was 
goat last turned into a flower called Sunflower, or Heliotrope. The 
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(y28¢) It was introduced into France by Jessieu, about 1740. There are 
_ several other flowers that follow the course of the sun, the best 
known being probably the common yellow Sunflower. 
Heuntion. 
EVOTION’S self shall steal a thought from heaven; 
One human tear shall drop, and be forgiven. 
—Pope. 
GIVE thee prayers, like jewels strung As earth pours freely to the sea 
On golden threads of hope and fear; Her thousand streams of wealth untold, 
And tenderer thoughts than ever hung So flows my silent life to thee, 
In a sad angel’s pitying tear. Glad that its very sands are gold. 
—fose Terry. 
N vain doth man the name of just expect, 
If his devotions he to God neglect. 
* —Sir F Denham. 
LOVE her for that loving trust A love that smiles away all tears, 
That makes the one she loves all just, And looks not way beyond these years, 
And faith that’s blind in loving; To see what love is proving. —CCC 
NE grain of incense with devotion offered 
’S beyond all perfumes or Sabzan spices 
By one that proudly thinks he merits it. 
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