AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 
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made strength, and that nothing could be derived from the 
earth without mutual labours. Filial piety and patriotic love 
were brought into action, by his eloquence, to unite the human 
race ; and commerce he made the bond of the world. His last 
thought was the most sublime, for it was consecrated to the 
gods, and he told mankind that they might become equal with 
the gods by deeds of love and beneficence. 
Ornamented with two light wings, and serpents entwining 
themselves around it, the hazel-wand, presented to the god of 
eloquence by the god of harmony, is still, under the name of 
Mercury’s wand, the symbol of peace, commerce, and reconcil¬ 
iation. 
As letters some hand hath invisibly traced, 
When held to the flame, will steal out on the sight, 
So many a feeling that long seemed effaced, 
The warmth of a meeting like this brings to light. 
Moore. 
RESERVE. 
MAPLE. 
The maple is made the emblem of reserve, because its flow¬ 
ers are very slow in opening, and also fall with extreme 
tardiness. Hanbury observes, that when the flowers, which 
are of a fine yellow colour, are out in the spring, the tree has 
great beauty; and in the autumn, the leaves die to a golden 
yellow hue, which produces a good effect when the various 
teints of the fading vegetable world are so universally displayed. 
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