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But in unfading beauty will appear 
A fragrant blossom in a higher sphere?’ 
Receive it, therefore, as the homage due, 
To worth and virtue as revealed in you. 
Dogwood. — ‘ Love undiminished by Absence .’ 
I have seen it recorded as a custom of ‘ the martyr Queen of 
Scots,’ to ‘ send messages through the clouds, the stars, and the 
evening breeze, to her friends in France,’ associating them in her 
thoughts with every thing pure and bright. What a touching 
evidence of affection! 
Ye little stars! that twinkle high, 
In the dark vault of Heaven, 
Like spangles on the deep blue sky, 
Perhaps to you ’t is given 
To shed your lucid radiance now, 
Upon my absent loved one’s brow ? 
