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j|eUnium autumuaU. Natural Order: Composite — Aster Family. 
HIS plant is named for the celebrated Helen, a daughter of 
Jupiter, who was so renowned for her beauty that she was 
seized by Paris, son of Priam, and carried to Troy, thereby 
causing the Trojan war. She is said to have “availed her¬ 
self of its cosmetic properties.” In medicine it is a tonic, 
produces an insensible perspiration; and it is also made into 
a snuff for medical use, which gives it the common name of Sneeze- 
’ wort. It grows in low ground or moist places in fields and by-ways, 
wholly uncultivated, having an herbaceous growth of from two to three 
,/eet in height. The plant blooms in August; the flowers are yellow. 
T \T HAT gem hath dropp’d, and sparkles o’er his chain? 
* v The tear most sacred shed for others’ pain, 
That starts at once — bright, pure — from pity’s mine, 
Already polish’d by the hand divine. — Byron. 
T) AISE it to heaven, when thine eye fills with tears, 
For only in a watery sky appears 
The bow of light; and from the invisible skies 
Hopes glory shines not, save through weeping eyes. 
— Mrs. F. A. Butler. 
OLE' 
In 
iLEST tears of soul-felt penitence! 
whose benign, redeeming flow 
Is felt the first, the only sense 
Of guiltless joy that guilt may know! 
— Moore. 
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'T'HANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not 
More grief than ye can weep for. That is well— 
That is light grieving! lighter, none befell, 
Since Adam forfeited the primal lot. 
Tears! what are tears? The babe weeps in its cot, 
UT these are tears of joy! to see you thus, has fill’d 
My eyes with more delight than they can hold. 
—Cong rere. 
The mother singing,— at her marriage-bell 
The bride weeps,— and before the oracle 
Of high-faned hills, the poet has forgot 
Such moisture on his cheeks. 
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
T'HOU weep’st: O stop that shower of falling sorrows, 
Which melts me to the softness of a woman, 
And shakes my best resolves. —Trap. 
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