CUPID AND PSYCHE. 
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driven from the assembly of the gods, that she 
wandered many a weary mile hand-in-hand with 
Love, when he set out to learn the long-lost Lan¬ 
guage of the Flowers. 
And ever after, in commemoration of their love, 
the Acacia was transplanted to the garden of the 
gods, and the Everlasting Pea trailed about the 
bowers of Olympus ; while the Marigold was changed 
to a worshipper of the sun, hung with grief, and 
pain, and sorrow, in his absence, but when present, 
turning to the God of Day with its golden smile 
of love. Ages have passed away since the mouth of 
that cool cavern was closed for ever: for number¬ 
less years was it guarded by the angry Gorse, and 
never durst either nymph or swain venture within 
sight of those golden-headed spears, after that 
cavern had been hallowed by the presence of Love. 
Altars were erected in those valleys, and yeaned 
lambs offered up to the immortal nymph, whom 
they believed often came back in the form of a 
butterfly, to visit the green glades of Arcadia; and 
many a piece of ancient sculpture, half buried with 
flowers, has been found in the vale of Arcadia, repre¬ 
senting Cupid and Psyche enfolded in each other’s 
arms. 
But few of our wild plants are better known than 
the Gorse, furze or whin: it is a native of almost 
every common and heath, and there are but few 
