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The Bay Blossom. —‘ Reward of Merit' 
From the purity of its color, and the durability of its odor, this 
flower should typify feelings of the highest order ; and Affection can 
well bestow it, in the spirit of prophecy, upon the young and the 
gifted, who are scaling the steeps of Ambition’s toilsome path. — But 
Love ever trembles lest it be replaced by Fame. 
Do not forget me—Fame, I know, 
Will twine her chaplet round thy brow, 
And stranger voices yet proclaim, 
With loud applause thine honored name! 
The good, the great, will speak thy praise, 
And smiling Beauty’s flattering gaze, 
Thy prouder boon will be ; — and then, 
Perhaps, thou wilt forget me; when 
Success will bid thee still pursue 
Ambition’s phantom form untrue, 
