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THE FLORAL GIFT. 
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EVERGREEN. 
Lycopodium, sp .—Class 24, Order 3. 
Trailing plants, in woods, keeping green all the year. 
POVERTY ANP WORTH. 
It grew not, in that golden clime 
Where painted birds in bowers as gay, 
Their notes on tropic breezes chime, 
While nature keeps her holiday. 
’Neath northern skies, its leaflets first 
Expanded to the wooing air, 
And in the lonely wild-wood nurst, 
It learned the northern blasts to bear. 
Transplanted from its simple home. 
By rocky dell or wind-swept hill, 
Like birds in stranger climes that roam, 
And keep their native wood-notes still. 
Still in its modest verdure drest 
It lives unchanged with change of scene, 
An emblem of its wearer’s breast 
Of truth and purity within. 
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