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Sweetly upon thy senses. —Willis. 
REAMS are the children of an idle brain, AAS that dreams are only dreams! 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, That fancy cannot give 
Which is as thin of substance as the air, A lasting beauty to those forms, 
And more inconstant than the wind. Which scarce a moment live! 
oo Dreams. 
—Dr. Fohnson. 
ELL may dreams present us fictions, We sleep’s calm wing is on my brow, 
Since our waking moments teem And dreams of peace my spirit lull, 
With such fanciful convictions Before me like a misty star 
As make life itself a dream. That form floats dim and beautiful. 
— Campbell. —G. D. Prentice. 
@smunida, 
Osmunda regalis. Naturau Orper: filices— Fern Family. 
oy N England this fern is called Royal Osmunda, as its Latin 
§ name signifies, and is given a place in the ferneries of the 
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e&most fastidious amateur. In America it is found in damp 
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meadows and swampy lands, sending up its fronds sometimes 
three and four feet high, but in less damp and congenial 
places it diminishes its height nearly one half. There is 
scarcely anything more graceful than the Fern, of whatever species, 
from the common brake in the woods, or fence corners, to the most 
Gis delicate tropical one cherished in hothouse or greenhouse. No glaring 
ye\ color to strike the eye, nothing but its own simple and elegant outline, 
(a8 and that ever-satisfying, restful and never-tiring tint of nature, the pre- 
dominating green. 
Wt: when the balm of sleep descends on man, 
Do gay delusions, wand’ring o’er the brain, 
Soothe the delighted soul with empty bliss? 
NNOCENT dreams be thine! thy heart sends up 
Its thoughts of purity, like pearly bells, 
Rising in crystal fountains. Would I were 
A sound, that I might steal upon thy dreams, 
And, like the breathing of my flute, distil 
—Shakespeare. —Rufus Dawes. ’ ; 
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