BUC, 
Ruta graveolens. Narturar Orver: Rutacee—Rue Family. 
of the Eastern Hemisphere and the tropical parts of South 
America. The name Ruté is of Peloponnesian origin, and is 
frequently mentioned by both ancient Greek and Latin au- 
al thors; while peganon was apparently the synonym elsewhere 
“EN in Greece. The whole plant is pervaded by an intensely 
i that render it useful in medicine, among which are its tonic and febri- 
fugal properties. It is a very hardy shrub, frequently cultivated in 
~ gardens, growing about three feet high, and from June to September 
produces flowers of a dull yellow color, in loose clusters, 
Repentance, 
I have deeply felt 
The mockery of the hollow shrine at which my spirit knelt; 
Mine is the requiem of years in reckless folly pass’d, 
The wail above departed hopes on a frail venture cast; 
The vain regret that steals above the wreck of squander’d hours 
Like the sighing of the autumn wind over the faded flowers. 
—Whittier. 
E that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend; OME, fair Repentance! daughter of the skies! 
Eternity mourns that. ’Tis an ill cure Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue! 
For life’s worst ills, to have no time to feel them. The weeping messenger of grace from heav’n! 
—Henry Taylor. —Brown, 
HO by repentance is not satisfied, 
Is not of heav’n nor earth, for these are pleased; 
By penitence the Eternal’s wrath’s appeased. — Shakespeare. 
WEET tastes have sour closes; [of roses. ORROW for past ills doth restore frail man 
And he repents on thorns that sleeps on beds To his first innocence. 
—2Quarles. —Nabb. 
O let us which this change of weather view, 
Change eke our minds, and former lives amend; 
The old year’s sins forepast let us eschew, 
And fly the faults with which we did offend.  — Spenser. ii 
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