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^Itropa Della Llonua. Natural Order: Solanacece — Nightshade Family. 
ATE personified (not as one, but threefold) was described in 
ancient Greek mythology as three women with robes of 
^ermine, as white as snow, bordered around with purple. 
The first is named Clotho, the second, Lachesis, and the 
o third, Atropos (literally, not turning), because she is immuta- 
ble and unalterable. “To them is intrusted the manage- 
^ ment of the thread of life: for Clotho draws the thread between 
her fingers; Lachesis turns the wheel; and Atropos cuts the thread, 
ggffg That is, Clotho gives life and brings into the world, Lachesis deter- 
MkT m i nes fortunes that shall befal us here, and Atropos concludes 
The flower of this plant is of a pale purple, the berries 
IBS our lives ” 
' of a glossy black, freely charged with a purple juice. The whole 
plant is poisonous, especially the berries. Lortunately it is not 
naturalized in the United States. 
TYEATH is the crown of life: 
Were death deny’d, poor men would live in vain; 
Were death deny’d, to live would not be life; 
Were death deny’d, ev’n fools would wish to die. 
— Young. 
TAEATH ’s but a path that must be trod, 
^ If man would ever pass to God. 
— Parnell. 
T'HE bad man’s death is horror; but the just 
A Keeps something of his glory in his dust. 
— Bobbing ton. 
T'HE world recedes; it disappears! 
1 Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears 
With sounds seraphic ring. — jPo/<?. 
BREATHE in the face of a maiden, 
I kiss the soft mouth of a rose; 
Yet not that I hate them, but love them, 
My black wings are spread forth above them, 
And round them my pinions enclose; 
I love them so well that they die; 
Yet my heart with their sorrow is laden, 
And sad with their cry. —Ellis. 
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