Mermaid deed, 
Proserpmaca palustris. Natura OrpvEr: Onagracee — Evening Primrose Family. 
Pan as ponds, ‘swamps and aiteies, has its mythological asso- 
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5". ciations, being named, it is thought, from Proserpine, a Roman 
ian. 
Zz {goddess stolen by Pluto and conveyed to his kingdom. Ceres, 
ai, her mother, searched for her a long time in vain, but at 
“last bane, es she had been taken to Fluto’s kingdom, 
ep) , . dausiter to remain one half the year with her, the other half in the 
Ke ©) infernal regions. The name, however, may have been derived from 
Sine creeping habit of the plant (Latin froserpo, I creep), as the stems 
creep at the base in the mud or shallow water, the upper part only 
As emerging. 
Teressity. 
ULL soon, I know it, while they shall strain to free not, 
From these idolatrous arms you shall be torn; 
You are fated from my days to pass and be not, 
Like all of rare and fair they have ever worn! 
I am doomed, although the stealthy doom I see not; 
I feast, albeit I die tomorrow morn! —Edgar Fawcett. 
HE ship which goes to sea inform’d with fire—— | As the white bosom’d bark which wooes the wind, 
Obeying only its own iron force, And when it dies desists. And thus with man: 
Reckless of adverse tides, breeze dead, or weak However contrary he set his heart 
As infant's sporting breath, too faint to stir To God, he is but working out His will, 
The feather held before it,—is as much And at an infinite angle, more or less 
The appointed thrall of all the elements, Obeying his own soul’s necessity. —Bailey. 
HE grass withereth, the flower fadeth, ATE — soon or late, 
Ay, and I know “’tis well,” The longest day hath end; 
For they shall live again when springtime’s If the summer wait, 
Sweet birdlings’ songs shall tell, The winter still must wend 
Above their knell. —Charlotte Cordner, | With sad steps and slow unto the fields of Fate. 
—L. Bruce Moore, 
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