UNCHANGING AFFECTION. 
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ARBOR VITAS. 
Thuja. 
Language — UNCHANGING AFFECTION. 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, 
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, 
Were to change by to-morrow, and melt in my arms, 
Like fairy gifts fading away, 
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, 
Let thy loveliness fade as it will, 
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart 
Would intwine itself verdantly still! 
It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, 
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear, 
That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, 
To which time will but make thee more dear. 
0, the heart which has truly loved never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close 
As the sunflower turns to her god, when she sets, 
The same look which she turned when he rose. 
Mooke. 
Within her heart was his image, 
Clothed in the beauty of love and youth, as last 
She beheld him, 
Only more beautiful made by his deathlike 
Silence and absence. 
Longfellow's Evangeline. 
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