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hue of the fir and pine, and its elegant spiral 
shape, contrasting with the broad spreading 
oak, is a no less happy contrast: while its 
stars of fasciculate 'foliage are displayed to 
additional advantage when neighbouring with 
the broad-leaved aesculus, -the glossy holly, 
the drooping birch, or the tremulous aspen.” 
BONDS OF LOVE. 
HONEYSUCKLE. 
That sweet honeysuckle, which 
Is fair as fragrant. Carrington. 
The woodbine wild, 
That loves to hang, on barren boughs remote, 
Her wreaths of flowery perfume. mason. 
The honeysuckle sometimes amorously 
attaches its pliant branches to the knotted 
trunk of an ancient oak, and, amid the rug¬ 
ged branches of that lordly tree, 
The woodbines mix in amorous play, 
And breathe their fragrant lives away. 
It was said, that this feeble tree, thus shoot¬ 
ing into the air, would overtop the king of the 
forest: but, as if its efforts were unavailing, 
it soon recoiled, and with graceful negligence 
adorned its friendly supporter with elegant 
festoons and perfumed garlands. 
