THE RUE PLANT. 
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lovers of sweet perfumes : and hence, as dis¬ 
dainful people are disagreeable, and there¬ 
fore avoided, when avoidance is possible, this 
plant appears on this account a not unsuitable 
emblem of disdain. 
ILLUSTRATION OF THE SENTIMENT. 
It did not need that alter’d look 
Nor that uplifted brow,— 
I had not ask’d thy haughty love. 
Were I as proud as now. 
My love was like a beating heart, 
Unbidden and unstay’d; 
And, had I known but half its power, 
I had not been betray’d. 
Willis. 
