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CEDAR OF LEBANON. — PINUS CEDRUS. 



Natural order, Conifera. A genus of the 

 Moncecia Monadelphia class. 



" Cedars here, 



Coeval with the sky-crown' d mountain's self, 

 Spread wide their giant arms." Mason. 



" No more the cedar to the turban bends ; 

 For us th* imperial tree from Lebanon descends." 



Ere we repine at the losses which time and 

 circumstances have made in our fortunes or 

 our families, let us reflect on the history of the 

 country from whence this tree first sprung, 

 and we shall find our individual troubles and 

 changes diminish in the comparison as a grain 

 of sand to a mountain. 



Lebanon is stripped of its forest, and the 

 first chosen People of God are driven from 

 their country ; the land of milk and honey is 

 become a desert ; and Christians are scorned 

 and persecuted on the spot where Christ 

 taught his blessed religion. The most splen- 

 did temple that human ingenuity ever erected 

 is " passed away, like the baseless fabric of a 



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