THE AMARANTH. 
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throne with a view of obtaining immortality, 
by devoting herself to letters, instituted the 
order of “ The Knights of the Amaranth,” 
to immortalise the sacrifice. After such ex¬ 
amples, it cannot be surprising that love and 
friendship should still adopt it as the emblem 
of their undying faithfulness. 
ILLUSTRATION OR THE SENTIMENT. 
Brave Schill., by death deliver’d, take thy flight 
From Prussia’s timid region; go, and rest 
With heroes, ’mid the islands of the blest, 
Or in the fields of empyrean light. 
A meteor wert thou crossing a dark night. 
Yet shall thy name, conspicuous and sublime. 
Stand in the spacious firmament of time. 
Fix’d as a star: such glory is thy right. 
Alas! it may not be: for earthly fame 
Is Fortune’s frail dependent; yet there lives 
A Judge,—who, as man claims by merit, gives; 
To whose all-pondering mind a noble aim, 
Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed,— 
In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed. 
Wordsworth. 
