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ArborvittE. — ‘ Live for me.’’ 
Barry Cornwall defines Love to be 4 an offering of tlie whole 
heart, a sacrifice of all that poor life hath.’ It is but natural, 
therefore, when relinquishing so much, that the Heart should be 
equally exacting in its requirements. 
Be mine, and mine only, nor hope to divide, 
The devotion I prize with one being beside; 
Like the lights on an altar your friendship may burn, 
Diffusing its beams and inviting return; 
But the pure flame of Love like a lamp should be 
hung, 
Whose light on the shrine of an idol is flung, 
Still tinging with lusture and hues of its own, 
Each offering affection around it has thrown. 
Be mine, and mine only, nor cherish the dream, 
That true love o’er many in fervor can beam, 
Like the sun which at noonday its radiance sheds 
round, 
Till each object it strikes with a glory is crowned ; 
