THE FI ORAL GIFT. 
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WEEPING WILLOW. 
Salix Balylonica ,—Class 22, Order 2. 
A fine tree with pendent branches, and growing to a great 
size ; from the Levant. 
MELANCHOLY. 
0, there are hours of wo and sadness, 
Which cost the heart a life of pain ; 
Which chill the soul with dreams of madness, 
And bid it never smile again. 
The heart, whose love is deeply blighted, 
Must pine in grief, decay, and die,— 
It roams a desert, lone, benighted, 
Without a bourne of solace nigh. 
The world may smile, and fortune brighten, 
As light’nings gild the lonely scene, 
The clouds of grief they but enlighten ; 
And show what deserts intervene.— 
Tho’ dark the night, ’fis not forever ; 
A day beam comes, in mercy given— 
Before its ray the storm-clouds sever, 
The wandering soul hath rest in heaven ! 
James S. Jhjlward. <■ 
