(E>ompl)i*ma pmnnis. Natural Order: Amarantacece — Amaranth Family. 
q^OUTH AMERICA has contributed this variety of the Ama¬ 
ranth to the flora of the United States. It is a plant about 
two feet high, with narrow, tapering leaves, and flowers simi¬ 
lar in shape to those of the common red clover. They are 
P>crimson in color, and equally fadeless and durable as in the 
annual species. Because of this quality they have been the 
chosen emblem of immortality from the early days of Homer down 
to the poets of modern times. 
A VOICE within us speaks that startling word — 
t*- “Man, thou shalt never die!” Celestial voices 
Hymn it into our souls; according harps, 
By angel fingers touch’d, when the mild stars 
Of morning sang together, sound forth still 
The song of our great Immortality. 
— R. H. Dana. 
J'T' IS immortality deciphers man, 
And opens all the mysteries of his make, 
Without it, half his instincts are a riddle, 
Without it, all his virtues are a dream. 
— Young. 
IMMORTALITY o’ersweeps 
All pains, all tears, all time, all fears — and peals 
Like the eternal thunders of the deep 
Into my ears this truth — Thou liv’st forever! 
— Byron. 
T3RESS onward through each varying hour; 
Let no weak fears thy course delay; 
Immortal being! feel thy power, 
Pursue thy bright and endless way. 
A LL, to re-flourish, fades; 
As in a wheel, all sinks, to reascend, 
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires. 
— Young'. 
—Andrews Norton. 
T'HE spirit of man 
Which God inspired, cannot together perish 
With this corporeal clod. 
— Milton. 
C OLD in the dust this perish’d heart may lie, 
But that which warm’d it once shall never die. 
— Campbell. 
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