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E that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend; 
Eternity mourns that. ’Tis an ill cure 
For life’s worst ills, to have no time to feel them. 
—Henry Taylor. 
— Brown. 
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Hutll gratttolens. Natural Order: Rutacccc — Rue Family. 
LANTS of this order are usually found in the warmer parts 
of the Eastern Hemisphere and the tropical parts of South 
|i America. The name Rute is of Peloponnesian origin, and is 
|‘ frequently mentioned by both ancient Greek and Latin au- 
J? r , thors; while peganon was apparently the synonym elsewhere 
hK in Greece. The whole plant is pervaded by an intensely 
bitter element and an ungrateful odor, though it has several qualities 
that render it useful in medicine, among which are its tonic and febri¬ 
fugal properties. It is a very hardy shrub, frequently cultivated in 
gardens, growing about three feet high, and from June to September 
produces flowers of a dull yellow color, in loose clusters. 
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I have deeply felt 
The mockery of the hollow shrine at which my spirit knelt; 
Mine is the requiem of years in reckless folly pass’d, 
The wail above departed hopes on a frail venture cast; 
The vain regret that steals above the wreck of squander’d hours 
Like the sighing of the autumn wind over the faded flowers. 
— Whittier. 
FOME, fair Repentance! daughter of the skies! 
^ Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue! 
The weeping messenger of grace from heav’n! 
"11 T HO by repentance is not satisfied, 
’ * Is not of heav’n nor earth, for these are pleased; 
By penitence the Eternal’s wrath’s appeased. —Shakespeare. 
WEET tastes have sour closes; [of roses. QORROW for past ills doth restore frail man 
And he repents on thorns that sleeps on beds ^ To his first innocence. 
-Quarles. -Nabb. 
QO let us which this change of weather view-, 
^ Change eke our minds, and former lives amend; 
The old year’s sins forepast let us eschew, 
And fly the faults with which we did oflfend. —Spenser. 
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