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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 133 
LAVENDER. 
Lavandula Spicata. 
Language — ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 
Thinkest tliou 
That I could live, and let thee go, 
Who art my life itself? — No, no. 
Moore. 
I would be thine ! 
My world in thee to centre, 
With all its hopes, cares, fears, and loving thought; 
No wish beyond the home where thou shouldst enter; 
Ever anew to find thy presence brought 
My life’s best joy. 
I would be thine ! 
Not passion’s wild emotion 
To show thee, fitful as the changing wind, 
But with a still, deep, fervent life-devotion, 
To be to thee the helpmeet God designed: 
For this would I be thine ! 
Anon. 
Forever thine, whate’er this world betide, 
In youth, in age, thine own, forever thine. 
A. A. Watts. 
