^lubroimita IjwpuoifrtS. Natural Order: Ericacece—Heath Family. 
jrEPHEUS, an ancient king of Ethiopia, had a very proud and 
it haughty wife named Cassiopeia, and a daughter Andromeda. 
^2 His wife was so vain of her beauty that she contested with 
Juno for the supremacy. For such temerity, Jupiter issued a 
!|| decree that her daughter should be bound to a rock on the 
coast, that she might be devoured by sea-monsters. Perseus, 
Jupiter, and adopted son of the king of Seriphos, undertook an 
j|p/ expedition against the Gorgon Medusa, and upon his return discov- 
^ ered the luckless Andromeda languishing in the cords that bound her, 
and after overcoming dangerous obstacles, rescued and married her. Her 
§& name was given to a constellation in the heavens, and botanists have also 
named this little shrub in her honor. 
J) o ii n b ln| T idt* 
T ET wit her sails, her oars let wisdom lend; 
^ The helm let politic experience guide: 
Yet cease to hope thy short-lived bark shall ride 
Down spreading fate’s unnavigable tide. 
- Prior. 
TTNWILLING I forsook your friendly state, 
^ Commanded by the gods and forced by fate. 
— Dryden. 
fY THOU who freest me from my doubtful state, 
Long lost and wilder’d in the maze of fate! 
Be present still. —Pope. 
COME taste the lotus, and forget 
What life it was they lived before; 
TTERE I walk the sands at eve, 
Here in solitude I grieve. 
Break the spells we loved to weave. 
— James Franklin. 
C 
And some stray on the seas and set 
Their feet on every happy shore; 
But I — I linger evermore. 
—James Maurice Thompson. 
TJ'ATE steals along with ceaseless tread, 
And meets us oft when least we dread; 
Frowns in the storm with threatening brow, 
Yet in the sunshine strikes the blow. 
— Cowper. 
^piIE day too short for my distress; and night, 
Ev’n in the zenith of her dark domain, 
Is sunshine to the color of my fate. 
— Young. 
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