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(gnpt]Orbia l)tipcrtcifcilia. Natural Order: Euphorbiace.ee — Spurge Family. 
\ YEBRIGHT is a simple little plant found in dry soils in the 
\ United States. It is an annual, about a foot and a half high, 
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with smooth, purple stem, and leaves marked with oblong 
blotches. The blossoms are white, appearing in clusters dur¬ 
ing the summer. A medicine prepared from it was formerly 
used for diseases of the eye. There is also another plant 
called Eyebright, a native ol the White Mountains, with bluish-white 
flowers appearing in spikes. Its classic name is Euphrasia, meaning 
cheerfulness, in Greek, from the same root as Euphrosyne, one of the 
three graces. _ _ 
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AND then her look — O, where’s the heart so wise, 
Could, unbewilder’d, meet those matchless eyes? 
Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal, 
Like those of angels. —Moore. 
DOME praise the eyes they love to see, 
^ As rivaling the western star; 
But eyes I know well worth to me 
A thousand firmaments afar. 
— John Stirling. 
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HOSE laughing orbs that borrow 
From azure skies the light they wear, 
Are like heaven — no sorrow 
Can float o’er hues so fair. 
— Mrs. Osgood. 
A TINE things to sight required are: 
' The power to see, the light, the visible thing, 
Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too tar. 
Clear space and time, the form distinct to bring. 
T NEVER saw an eye so bright, 
1 And yet so soft as hers; 
It sometimes swam in liquid light. 
—Sir J. Davies. 
And sometimes swam in tears: 
It seem’d a beauty set apart 
For softness and for sighs. 
— Mrs. We/by. 
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TTER eves, in heaven, 
* ‘ Would through the airy region stream so bright 
That birds would sing, and think it were not night 
— Shakespeare , 
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