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ui os. 
A genus of evergreen shrubs, of 
the heath family. It is also called 
the strawberry-tree, from its berry re¬ 
sembling the strawberry. The Trail¬ 
ing Arbutus —Epigoea repens. 
“Hail the flower whose early bridal makes the festival of Spring! 
Deeper far than outward meaning lies the comfort she doth bring; 
From the heights of happy winning, 
Gaze we back on hope’s beginning, 
Feel the vital strength and beauty hidden from our eyes before; 
And we know with hearts grown stronger, 
Tho’ our waiting seemeth longer. 
Yet with Love’s divine assurance, we should covet nothing more.” 
—Elaine Goodale. 
Willingness Ever to Begin Again, and Early. 
8 0A TEA TMEXT with only partial success, or even with the blank 
failure of strangely balked effect, is always the part of true wisdom. 
.The oft-discomfited web-weaving spider, in continually renewing 
its expectant labors, teaches us—as in the past it taught historic heroes— 
a persevering readiness ever to make those New Beginnings which must 
finally place the seal upon achievement. So, likewise, instructs us the 
Arbutus—particularly, the Trailing Arbutus, 
“Pure and perfect, sweet Arbutus 
Twines her rosy-tinted wreath;” 
as the poet quoted above tells us when saluting The First Flowers; ay, 
beckoning us on, and yet onward and upward: 
