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FLORAL POEST. 
CONSTANCY. 
MOORE. 
Oh ! the heart that once truly loves never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close ; 
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets 
The same look that she turned when he rose. 
REAL FAITH. 
Beal faith is like the sun’s fair flower, 
Which ’midst the clouds that shroud it, and the winds 
That wave it to and fro, and all the change 
Of air, and earth, and sky, doth rear its head, 
And looketh up, stdl steadfast, to its God. 
LAUREL. BAY. 
(Glory.) (Fame.) 
“We crown with the laurel wreath 
The hero-god, the soldier chief.”—E liza Cook. 
41 Sweet bay-tree, symbol of the song that dreaming poet sings.” 
Ibid. 
“ The victor’s garland, and the poet’s crown.”—W. Browne. 
T HE sweet bay was deemed by both Greeks and 
Homans emblematic of Victory and Clemency. 
The glories of all grand deeds were signalized by means 
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