flUrmaiil @H c c (l. 
Jproserpinaca palustrts. Natural Order: Onagracece — Evening Primrose Family. 
f^IKE so many others, this plant, which inhabits moist places, 
such as ponds, swamps and ditches, has its mythological asso- 
yciations, being named, it is thought, from Proserpine, a Roman 
ygoddess stolen by Pluto and conveyed to his kingdom. Ceres, 
her mother, searched for her a long time in vain, but at 
y " ' ^ '"last hearing that she had been taken to Pluto’s kingdom, 
she expostulated with Jupiter, and finally obtained permission for her 
daughter to remain one half the year with her, the other half in the 
infernal regions. The name, however, may have been derived from 
the creeping habit of the plant (Latin proserpo , I creep), as the stems 
creep at the base in the mud or shallow water, the upper part only 
emerging. 
T^ULL soon, I know it, while they shall strain to free not, 
From these idolatrous arms you shall be torn; 
You are fated from my days to pass and be not, 
Like all of rare and fair they have ever worn! 
I am doomed, although the stealthy doom I see not; 
I feast, albeit I die tomorrow morn! —Edgar Favjcett. 
FPHE ship which goes to sea inform’d with fire, 
•*- Obeying only its own iron force, 
Reckless of adverse tides, breeze dead, or weak 
As infant’s sporting breath, too faint to stir 
The feather held before it,— is as much 
The appointed thrall of all the elements, 
'T'HE grass withereth, the flower fadeth, 
* Ay, and I know “ ’tis well,” 
For they shall live again when springtime’s 
Sweet birdlings’ songs shall tell, 
Above their knell. —Charlotte Cordner. 
As the white bosom’d bark which wooes the wind, 
And when it dies desists. And thus with man: 
However contrary he set his heart 
To God, he is but working out His will, 
And at an infinite angle, more or less 
Obeying his own soul’s necessity. —Bailey. 
TATE — soon or late, 
■ The longest day hath end; 
If the summer wait, 
The winter still must wend 
With sad steps and slow unto the fields of Fate. 
-— L. Bruce Moore. 
