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Carus baccata. Nartrurat Orver: JZaxacee— Yew Family. 
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F Fa . European Yew is a tree of low stature. Associated, as it 
4) nearly always is, with the burial places of the dead, it | 
» has among all nations become an acknowledged emblem 
’ of sorrow. Either through the nourishment ‘of the soil be- 
coming wholly exhausted, or because of the shadow cast by its 
foliage, little if anything grows beneath its shade; and an old idea is, 
that to sleep beneath its branches benumbs or stupefies the brain. The 
Latin synonym is derived from the original Greek name ¢axos. On 
account of its pernicious qualities the ancient poets, as Ovid, Silius and 
Lucanus, considered it the “tree of the infernal regions.” There are 
some fifty species scattered throughout the temperate zone, several of 
them being mere shrubs. The Dwarf Yew, or Ground Hemlock, is 
found in Canada and our Northern States, inhabiting a rocky soil and shady, 
cool places, where it grows to a height of about three feet. It produces a small, 
red, waxy-looking berry, open at the top, which surrounds a single black seed. 
Sorrow, 
AST sorrows, let us mod’rately lament them; 
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. 
—Webster. 
NE fire burns out another’s burning; One desp’rate grief cure with another’s languish; 
One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish; Take thou some new infection to the eye, 
Turn giddy, and be help’d by backward turning; And the rank poison of the old will die. 
: : — Shakespeare. 
T breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, 
Yet it consumes the heart. —,sheridan. 
MAZ’D he stands, nor voice nor body stirs; Oppress’d with grief, his passion had no bound; 
Words had no passage, tears no issue found; Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; 
For sorrow shut up words, wrath kept in tears; For light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb. 
Confused effects each other do confound: Danial. 
ee good are better made by ill; 
And odors crushed are sweeter still! 
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