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Melilot, 
Melilotus alba. Narurar Orver: Leguminose—Pulse Family. 
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“ TALL herb, passing frequently under the cognomen of Sweet- 
» scented Clover, the Melilot used to be cultivated in gardens 
“for the fragrance of its foliage, as well as its flowers, which it 
retains for a long time in a dried state. By many it was con- 
Ls sidered as desirable to place among clothing, as the famed 
\WKlavender and roseleaves was by the belles of the last cen- 
It is usually about three feet high, and in an uncultivated state 
¥Y; which it seems to delight. The flowers are small, arranged up and 
edown the stem in the style of a loose raceme, and in color white, 
w@ with a slight tinge of yellow intermixed. It derives its name from the 
Greek, and signifies honey lotus. 
Philanthropy. 
WOULD bring balm, and pour it in your wound; 
Cure your distemper’d mind, and heal your fortunes. 
—Dryden. 
. AND now philanthropy! thy rays divine N faith and hope the world will disagree, 
Dart round the globe from Zembla’s to the line; But all mankind’s concern is charity: 
O’er each dark prison plays the cheering light, All must be false that thwart this one great end, 
Like northern lusters o’er the vault of night. And all of God that bless mankind or mend. 
—Darwin. —Pope. 
HE primal duties shine aloft, like stars; 
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, 
Are scatter’d at the feet of man, like flowers. 
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—Wordsworth. 
ET was she not profuse, but fear’d to waste, ND when the sickly taper shed 
And wisely managed that the stock might last; Its light through vapors damp confined, 
That all might be supplied, and she not grieve Hushed as a seraph’s fell thy tread, 
When crowds appear’d she had not to relieve; A new Electra by the bed 
Which to prevent, she still increased her store; Of suffering human kind, 
Laid up, and spared, that she might the more. Pointing the spirit in its dark dismay 
—Drydn. To. that pure hope which fadeth not away. ( 
—Whittier, Hay 
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