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flora’s album. 
American Star Wort. 
A slender plant, with starry blossoms. 
■WELCOME TO A STEANGEK. 
Lady, thou earnest from a stranger land, 
And little of thee I know ; 
Yet thou art joined to the fading hand 
Of travellers here below.. 
And thou art of woman’s form and mien, 
Hast a woman’s heart within; 
And, by thine eye and thy brow, I ween 
Her sorrows with thee have been. 
Thy Father is mine, and mine is thine ; 
We both are his equal care ; 
His goodness, and love, and blessings benign, 
We each as his children share. 
In sympathy, then, I give thee a hand 
And greet thee as thus we go. 
And pledge a renewal in that bright land 
■Where pleasures perennial grow. 
Mrs. Jane E. Locke. 
