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variety of colors, 
TTje "Tulip. 
“The florist admires my elegant robe, 
And praises its rainbow ray, 
Till it seems as if, through his raptured eyes. 
He was gazing his soul away.” 
-— Anon. 
The Tulip is a bulbous plant, of the genus 
Tulipa , producing flowers of great beauty and of a 
and is much cultivated as an ornamental plant. 
Fame. 
.“What is fame? 
The echo of a long lost name; 
A breath —an idle hour’s brief talk, 
The shadow of an arrant naught; 
A flower that blossoms for a day, 
Dying next morrow; 
A stream that hurries on its way. 
Singing of Sorrow; 
The last drop of a bootless shower, 
Shed on a sear and leafless bower; 
A rose stuck in a dead mans breast — 
This is the world's fame , at the best!" 
— W. Motherwell. 
“Your reputation is the color of grass 
Which comes and goes, and that discolors it 
By which it issues green from out the earth.” 
— Dante , Purgatorio xi: 115-117. 
® HAT is fame?—Fame, as is generally said, is public renown or celeb¬ 
rity, and he who is widely spoken of as extraordinary, or named 
again and again with honor, or has dazzled the world by the splendor of 
his deeds or his virtues, is called famous, renowned, illustrious. 
