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jgjitstiifo plant. 
Can hope, joy, fear, wear different seeming. Now 
I have no hope that does not dream for thee; 
I have no joy that is not shared hy thee; 
I have no fear that does not dread for thee. 
L. E. L. 
Alas! the love of woman! it is known 
To be a lovely and a fearful thing; 
For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, 
And, if His lost, life has no more to bring 
To them but mockeries of the past alone. 
j Byron. 
Sensitive Plant. ... Chastity. 
This singular plant is so named from its motions 
imitating the sensibility of animal life. It contracts 
itself in the evening and expands with the morning 
light, and shrinks from external violence, folding up 
its leaves at the mere approach of one's hand. The 
Yiolet is the emblem of that retiring modesty which 
proceeds from reflection, but the Sensitive Plant is a 
perfect image of innocence and virgin modesty, the 
result of instinct. 
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, 
That when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lackey her, 
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. 
Milton. 
