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THE FLOWER VASE. 
EVERLASTING. 
Gnaphalium. Class 19 .—Order 2. 
This is a common wild flower. Blossoms pearly white, 
and unwithering. 
Always remembered. 
I think of thee when the bright sunlight shimmers 
Across the sea; 
When the clear fountain in the moonbeam glim¬ 
mers, 
I think of thee. 
I see thee, if far up the pathway yonder 
The dust be stirred ; 
If faint steps o’er the little bridge to wander 
At night be heard. 
I hear thee, when the tossing waves’ low rumbling 
Creeps up the hill; 
I go to the lone wood, and listen, trembling, 
When all is still. 
Goethe. 
