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THE PASSION-FLOWER. 
ILLUSTRATION OF THE SENTIMENT. 
All-beauteous flower! whose centre glows 
With studs of gold; thence, streaming, flows 
Itay-like effulgence; next is seen 
A rich expanse of varying hue, 
Enfringed with an empurpled blue, 
And streak’d with young Pomona’s green. 
High o’er the pointal, deck’d with gold, 
(Emblem mysterious to behold !) 
A radiant cross its form expands; 
It’s op’ning arms appear t’ embrace 
The whole collective human race— 
Refuge of all men, in all lands! 
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