0tellaria llicbia. Natural Order: Caryophyllacece — Pink Family. 
^EARLY everywhere north of Mexico the Chickweed may be 
found generally in moist, shady places. It is a small, delicate, 
/l^Egrain-like herb. The leaves are oval, the stem round and 
jointed, and rather procumbent. The flowers are small, 
white and star-like, whence its botanical name. At night the 
leaves, in pairs, close around the young stems. Birds are 
very fond of picking at the seeds, as well as the green leaves, espe¬ 
cially canaries, giving rise to its popular name, Chickweed. The 
leaves possess certain cooling and nutritive properties that render 
them desirable for consumptives. They are also useful to allay 
external inflammation, by being moistened and applied warm. 
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T HAVE sought the intensest ways to best adore you, 
1 I have lain my soul’s last treasure at your feet; 
Yet I tremble as in thought I bend before you, 
With abasement and abashment and defeat, 
Knowing well that all the love I ever bore you 
Is requital weak of worth and incomplete! 
—Edgar Fawcett. 
T’VE seen grand ladies plumed and silked, 
^ But not a sweeter maiden — 
But not a sweeter, fresher maid 
Than this in homely cotton, 
Whose pleasant face and silky braid 
I have not yet forgotten. 
—Christina Georgina Rossetti. 
'T'HERE ever is a form, a face, 
A Of maiden beauty in my dreams, 
Speeding before me like the race 
To ocean of the mountain streams — 
With dancing hair, and laughing eyes. 
That seem to mock me as it flies. 
— Halleck. 
G 
IV II Y spirit bows before a nameless shrine, 
Seeking to offer there 
The heart’s devotion to some nymph divine 
As pure and true as fair. 
— W. F. Langey. 
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