Beware of desperate steps ! The darkest day. 
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. 
pOWPER. 
Fain would I stop to remove from thy way 
Stones that have bruised me, and thorns that have grieved; 
Set up my errors for way-marks, to say, 
Hen I was wounded, ensnared, or deceived. 
PORA pREENWELL. 
• -. FEBRUARY 7 ---- 
Bluebell (Bell Flower Pyramidal). Constancy. 
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, 
We will stand by each other however it blow. 
Oppression and sickness, and sorrow, and pain, 
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain. 
PoNGFELLOW. 
When all things have their trial, you shall find 
Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind. 
(Shirley, 
—... FEBRUARY 8 ...»‘ i 
Borage ..... Abruptness. Bluntness. 
’Tis not enough your counsel still be true; 
Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. 
Pope. 
This is some fellow, J 
Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect 
A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb; 
Quite from his nature ! he can’t flatter, he, 
An honest mind and plain—he must speak truth { 
And they will take it so; if not, he’s plain. 
(Shakespeare. 
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