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THE FLORAL GIFT. 
IS 
-a? 
NIGHTSHADE. 
Solatium Nigrum ,—Class 5, Order 1. 
A creeping plant, with purple flowers, and bright red ber¬ 
ries, growing by road-aides.—North America. 
DARK THOUGHTS. 
Ah, tell me not that memory, 
Sheds gladness o’er the past, 
What is recall’d by faded flowers, 
Save that they did not last ? 
Look back upon your hours of youth— 
What were your early years, 
But scenes of childish cares and griefs? 
And say not childish tears 
Were nothing; at that time they were, 
More than the young heart well could bear. 
Go on to riper years, and look 
Upon your sunny spring ; 
And'from the wrecks of former years, 
What will your memory bring !— 
Affections wasted, pleasures fled, 
And hopes now numbered with the dead ! 
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