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have never been still, but are always agitated in 

 remembrance of that dreadful day : — 



Far off in highland wilds 'tis said 



(But truth now laughs at fancy's lore), 



That of this tree the Cross was made 

 Which erst the Lord of glory bore, 



And of that deed its leaves confess. 



E'er since, a troubled consciousness." 



Spirit of the Woods. 



The weeping willow is the tree from which the 

 scourges were made w^ith which our Lord was 

 chastised, and which tree has never since been 

 able to hold up its head." 



The purple Orchis, also called Gethsemane, is 

 supposed to have grown at the foot of the Cross, 

 and to have been stained with the blood that 

 flowed from our Lord's body. A similar idea is 

 connected with the Arum ; also with the Spotted 

 Persicaria. 



Sept, 17. — S. Lambert, Bishop and Martyr. Narrow- 

 leaved Mallow. Malva ajigustifolia. 

 S. Lambert was Bishop of Maestricht in the year 



