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Poppy--Opinm, 
Papaver somniferum, Naturar Orver: Papaveracee —Poppy Family. 
4 ROM this plant is obtained that powerful narcotic, the opium 
of commerce. It has a milky juice that exudes from incisions 
“made on the capsules of the plant. After it has been col- 
lected, it is worked in the sun until it is firm enough to be 
formed into cakes for exportation. Ceres is pictured carrying 
\:%5Poppies in her hand, because, when she lost her daughter, 
~ Jupiter gave her Poppies to eat, that she might get sleep and 
rest, which she could not before, for the intensity of her grief. The 
flowers are white, large and double. The Oriental Poppy from the 
Levant is a beautiful flower of a rich scarlet. The capsule is round, 
with a flat cap or covering, underneath which are small openings 
through which the seeds may be scattered as from a pepperbox. 
Steep. 
LEEP, sleep! be thine the sleep that throws 
Elysium o’er the soul’s repose, 
Without a dream, save such as wind, 
Like midnight angels, through the mind. 
—Robert M. Bird. . 
OW beautiful is sleep! Yet sleep is awful, too— 
Yet if its purest beauties thou wouldst feel, So like to death’s its features it can dress; 
On the babe’s slumber creep, Meek slumberer! while I view 
And bid thy heart confess its mute appeal. Thine own, I deeply feel its awfulness. 
—Barton. 
MAGIC sleep! O comfortable bird 
That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind 
Till it ig hush’d and smooth. O unconfined 
Restraint! imprison’d liberty! great key 
To golden palaces—ay, all the world 
Of silvery enchantment! —Keats. 
ROM a poppy I have taken Deadens every sense of smart; 
Mortal’s balm and mortal’s bane; ~ Doomed to heal or doomed to kill, 
Juice that, creeping through the heart, Fraught with good, or fraught with ill. fp 
P or —Mrs, Robinson. \\) 
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