JfA 
Alyssum 
JANUARY 9 
Merit before beauty. 
Tell me not that he’s a poor man, 
That his dress is coarse and bare; 
Tell me not his daily pittance 
Is a workman’s scanty fare; 
Tell me not his birth is humble, 
That his parentage is low; 
Is he honest in his actions? 
That is all I want to know. 
jJoseph Pomer. 
. JANUARY 10 ' -.. 
Amaranth (Globe) __ 1 change not. 
Changeless as the greenest leaves 
Of the wreath the cypress weaves— 
Hopeless often when most fond— 
Without hope or fear beyond 
Its own pale fidelity. 
JVllSS JliANDON, 
.... JANUARY 11 .......... 
Amaryllis ---- Splendid beauty. 
Her face right wondrous fair did seem to be, 
That her broad, beauty’s beam great brightness threw 
Through the dim shade, that all men might it see. 
Ppenser. 
Beauties that from worth arise, 
Are like the grace of deities, 
Still present with us, though unsighted. 
(Sir jJ. (Suckling. 
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