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LANGUAGE AND 
Oh, had I wealth, I’d lay it all 
With pride and pleasure at thy feet; 
And thou should’st shine in home and hail. 
The fairest that the eye could meet. 
LABURNUM. 
Cytisus . Class 17 ; Order 4. 
Flowers purplish, or yellow. 
PENSIVE BEAUTY. 
Thought, like a bird of drooping wing, 
Sits hushed upon thy brow; 
While from thine eyes’ deep shaded spring 
A thousand feelings flow. 
Thou art like some lone, brilliant star, 
Some planetary light, 
That glitters, radiant and afar, 
Within the depths of night. 
Thy beauty has a twilight grace, 
Half shadowy and half bright— 
A curtain o’er thy radiant face 
Of intellectual light. 
