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Amaranth. .. .Immortality. 
The Amaranth is unfading; and it has, therefore, 
been made the emblem of immortality. In Homer’s 
time, it was customary to wear crowns of Amaranth at 
the funerals of distinguished personages. Milton, in 
his Lycidas, classes it among the flowers, that “sad 
embroidery wear.” In the floral games at Toulouse, 
the principal prize was a golden Amaranth for the 
best lyric composition. The Amaranthus hypochon- 
driacus, one of the American species, is better known 
by the name of Prince’s Feather. 
There’s a yearning that’s felt in your heart’s deepest 
cell, 
And silently, vainly, within doth it swell; 
And, scorning the hopes of the children of earth, 
Seeks the bright home of its heavenly birth; 
And that yearning, unquenched in the heart will lie, 
Till refreshed by a draught from eternity. 
Miss Larcom. 
' Oh, listen man! 
A voice within us speaks that startling word, 
“Man, thou shalt never die!” Celestial voices 
Hymn it unto our souls: according harps, 
By angel fingers touched, when the mild stars 
Of morning sang together, sound forth still 
The song of our great immortality. 
Dana. 
