LAURUSTINUS. 



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Now lost 



Amidst a glooming wilderness of shrubs 

 The golden orange^ arbute evergreen. 

 The early blooming almond, feathery pine. 

 Fair opulus to spring, to autumn dear. 

 And the sweet shades of varying verdure, caught 

 From soft acacia's gently waving branch. 

 Heedless he wanders : while the grateful scents 

 Of sweetbriar, roses, honeysuckles wild. 

 Regale the smell ; and to the enchanted eye 

 Mezereon's purple, laurastinus' white. 

 And pale laburnum's pendent flowers display 

 Their different beauties." 



This shrub is so absolute in its love of the country, 

 tliat it will not live in London, nor thrive near it. 



* Guelder Rose. 



