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LANGUAGE AND 
CYPRESS. 
Cyprcssus , sempervirens . Class 21 ; Order 16 
MOURNING.-DESPAIR. 
They came and went like shadows, 
The blessed dreams of youth, 
And they left behind no impress 
Or record of their truth. 
Then the future was all sunshine, 
In gorgeous robes arrayed; 
But ever as I’ve reached it, 
Its sunshine turned to shade. 
I’ve seen the colors fading 
From all that I could prize, 
Like day’s departing glories 
From out the sunset skies ; 
And full roughly I have ridden 
The stormy tide of life, 
And long years have passed in struggling, 
In bitterness and strife. 
T. B. Thayer. 
In every country and from the earliest ages 
the Ci/press has been ever deemed the emblem 
of mourning; and the reason is not difficult to 
imagine. 
No one can be surprised that our earliest an- 
