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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
REASON. 
Goat’s Rue. —Golega officinalis. 
“ Dim, as the borrow’d beams of moon and stars. 
To lonely, weary, wand’ring travellers. 
Is reason to the S04I : and as on high. 
Those rowling fires discover but the sky. 
Not light us here; so reason’s glimmering ray 
Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way. 
But guide us upward to a better day.” 
Dry den. 
The goat’s rue, so entirely disregarded in 
this country, yet so highly estimated by the 
Italians, stands in floral hieroglyphics as the 
emblem of reason. 
“ Reason,” says Hooker, “ is the director of 
man’s will, discovering in action what is good ; 
for the laws of well-doing are the dictates of 
right reason.” 
