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Verbena — * Sensibility 
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Excessive sensibility is as painful to witness, in some of its mani 
festations, as it is difficult to restrain or conquer. 
The changing cheek, and tearful eye, 
The half breathed word, and frequent sigh; 
The voice, whose trembling cadence falls, 
Like music which some dream recalls; 
The startled manner which we find, 
With gentleness full oft combined; 
Proclaim, amid their dark revealings, 
A heart o’ercharged with tender feelings! 
