the flower vase. 
Sycopodium. Class 22. — Order 2. 
Mosses are too obscure and irregular for ordinary distine- 
tion ; yet are greatly admired for their verdure and beauly. 
Maternal Love. 
Number thy lamps of love, and tell me now 
How many canst thou re-light at the stars, 
And blush not at their burning ? One — one only- 
Lit while your pulses by one heart kept time, 
And fed with faithful fondness to your grave- 
(Though sometimes with a hand stretched back 
from heaven) 
Steadfast through all things — near when most 
forgot — 
And with its finger of unerring truth 
Pointing the lost way in thy darkest hour— 
One lamp - thy Mother's love - amid the stars 
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before 
The throne of God burn through eternity — 
Holy—as it was lit and lent thee here. 
N. P. Willis. 
