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88 THE FLORAL GIFT. 
MISLETOE. 
Viscum Album ,—Class 22, Order 4. 
Parasitic plants, deriving nourishment from the sap of trees 
on which they grow—.Europe and the United States. 
OBSTACLES TO BE OVERCOME. 
There are hearts like the ivy, though all be 
decayed, 
That seem to twine fondly, in sunshine and 
shade, 
No leaves droop in sadness—still gaily they 
spread, 
Undimmed ’midst the blighted, and lonely, 
and dead ; 
But the Misletoe clings to the oak not in 
part, s 
But with leaves closely round it—the root in 
its heart, 
Exists but to twine it, imbibe the same 
dew, 
Or to fall with its lov’d oak, and perish there 
too. 
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