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THE FLORAL GIFT. 
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FERN 
Polypodium. Vulgare ,—Class 24, Order 1. 
A dwarfish shrub, growing in crevices of shady rocks, and 
bearing its seeds on its leaf ; North. America. 
FASCINATION. 
There’s not a waste, there’s not a gloom, 
But has its sunny spot, 
And hours ’mid saddest life may bloom 
Too sweet to be forgot: 
Such was that hour, so calm, so bright, 
Which first revealed her to my sight. 
I’ve dwelt, proud Thames,amid thybowers— 
Glad Rhine, I’ve trod thy strand— 
I’ve gazed on the gems and fairest flowers 
Of many a distant land,— 
Have gazed on the gentle, the wise, and the 
fair. 
But on none —no not one —that with her might 
compare ! 
