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LANGUAGE AN1) 
LICHEN.—TALL MOSS. 
Usrea . Class 24; Order 5. 
These mosses are fleshy or leather-like substances, 
growing on trees, and vegetating on naked rocks, 
drawing sustenance chiefly from the air. 
DEJECTION.-SOLITUDE. 
I would not stay for ever here, 
In this sad world of care and pain ; 
I would not have life linger on, 
Or give my thoughts to earth again. 
I long to close my tearful eyes, 
Recline my weary, aching head 
Upon the couch where ail is peace, 
And rest among the early dead. 
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Inwove with many a darkening thread 
The texture of my life appears : 
How vain were all its sweetest hopes, 
How more than bitter were its tears ? 
Miss M. A. Dodd. 
“’Tis ever thus, ’tis ever thus, when Hope has built a 
bower 
Like that of Eden, wreathed about with every thorn¬ 
less flower, 
To dwell therein securely, the self-deceiver’s trust, 
A whirlwind from the desert comes—and all is in the 
dust.” 
