Locust, 
Robimia pseudacacia. Narurar Orver: Leguminose— Pulse Family. 
Ny memory; and pseudacacia denotes false acacia. There are no 
a extensive forests of this tree on the American continent, but 
2 it is found mixed with other trees in various localities. It is 
YS, much planted for groves and shade trees around rural residences. The 
‘A foliage, though small, is beautiful, and during the spring an abundance 
ei of fragrant blossoms burden the air with their perfume, The wood is 
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Vitissitudg, 
UCH is life: all fair today, dark tomorrow, dull and gray; 
Changing ever, like the moon, or the fleecy clouds of June. 
—I. Hl. Clinch. 
HUS doth the ever-changing course of things RE mirth can well her comedy begin, 
Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; The tragic demon oft comes thundering in, 
And that same day that highest glory brings, Confounds the actors, damps the merry show, 
Brings us unto the point of back-returning. And turns the loudest laugh to deepest woe. 
—Daniel. —Wilson. 
On life is a waste of wearisome hours, 
Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; 
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, 
Is always the first to be touch’d by the thorn. 
—Moore. 
S there no constancy in earthly things? What miseries we are, and to ourselves! 
No happiness in us but what must alter? Ev’n then when full content seems to sit us, 
No life, without the heavy load of fortune? What daily sores and sorrows. 
—Beaumont and Fletcher. 
HE pang that wrings the heart today, 
Time’s touch will heal tomorrow. 
—Mrs. Filet. 
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