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fpssopus officinalis. Naturat Orver: Labiate—Mint Family. 
Sa) in their purifications (Exodus xii, 22). It is found in abun- 
‘4 dance on the hills of Palestine near Jerusalem. It. is about 
y, i) YEtwo feet high, with a bushy stalk, an aromatic smell, and a 
A pungent taste. The common species is a native of Europe. It: 
=°is a handsome plant, having bright blue flowers and delicate leaves. 
It is usually cultivated for its medicinal properties. The name of this 
plant is derived from the Hebrew ezod, through the Greek ussopos. 
Puritication. 
LEST are the pure! Would’st thou be blest? 
He'll cleanse thy spotted soul. Would’st thou find rest? 
Around thy toils and cares He’ll breathe a calm, 
And to thy wounded spirit lay a balm: 
From fear draw love, and teach thee where to seek 
Lost strength and grandeur with the bowed and meek. 
; —Dana. 
AST my heart’s gold into the furnace flame, HE grew a sweet and sinless child, 
And if it comes not thence refined and pure, In sun and shadow, calm and strife — 
I'll be a bankrupt to thy hope, and heaven A rainbow on the dark of life, 
Shall shut its gates on me. From love’s own radiant heaven down smiled. 
—Mrs. Sigourney. —Massey. 
ROM purity of thought all pleasure springs, 
And from an humble spirit all our peace. 
—Young. 
ASH me with thy tears! draw nigh me, 
IKE bright metal on a sullen ground, 
That their salt may purify me! 
My reformation, glittering o’er my fault, 
Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Thou remit my sins, who knowest 
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. All the sinning, to the lowest. 
— Shakespeare. —From the Greek (trans. by E. B. Browing). 
ET time serves, wherein you may redeem 
Your banished honors, and restore yourselves 
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Into the good thoughts of the world again. — Shakespeare. éF 
