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Artemisia abstntl)iunt. Natural Order: Composite — Aster Family. 
RTEMISIA (so called in honor of the goddess Artemis, the 
Greek equivalent of the Roman Diana), or, in our vernacu- 
j|* lar, Wormwood, is an intensely bitter plant, and has very 
powerful medicinal properties. Its flowers are yellow, and it 
^ „ „ is to some extent naturalized in the mountainous districts 
of our Northern States. Columella, the Latin writer on 
agriculture of the first century of our era, mentions both the plant 
and absinthites, or Wormwood wine; and the celebrated Greek med¬ 
ical and botanical writer, Dioscorides, also speaks ot it perhaps a 
century later. The Roman Wormwood is the kind usually found in 
our gardens, and is a native of Austria and other parts ot Euiope. 
'V/'E flowers that droop, forsaken by the spring; 
1 Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing; 
Ye trees that fade when autumn heats remove: 
Say, is not absence death to those who love? —Pope. 
TIKE as the culver on the bared bough, 
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate, 
And in her songs sends many a wishful vow 
For his return that seems to linger late: 
So I, alone now left, disconsolate, 
Mourn to myself the absence of my love; 
And, wandering here and there all desolate, [dove. 
Seek, with my plaints, to match that mournful 
— Spenser. 
O H Absence! by thy stern decree 
How many a heart, once light and free, 
Is fill’d with doubts and fears! 
Thv days like tedious weeks do seem, 
Thy weeks slow-moving months we deem, 
QHORT absence hurt him more, 
^ And made his wound far greater than before; 
Absence not long enough to root out quite 
All love, increases love at second sight. 
— Thomas May. 
J HAT tender strains of passion can impart 
The pangs of absence to an amorous heart? 
Far, far too faint the powers of language prove — 
Language, that slow interpreter of love! 
Souls paired like ours, like ours to union wrought, 
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Thv months long-lingering years. 
7 —J.T. Watson. 
Converse by silent sympathy of thought. 
— Pattison. 
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