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crown of innocence, is at once its reward, en¬ 
couragement, and emblem. It is a gentle 
ambition, whose utmost aim is a garland of 
roses. Chaucer says — 
And everich had a chapelet on her hed 
Makid of goodly floures white and red. 
Roses seem to have been used in garlands 
amongst the ancient Egyptians; for we read 
that when Ptolemy and Cleopatra entertained 
Caesar, and the noble Romans who attended 
him, 
With wreathes of nard the guests their temples bind, 
And blooming roses of immortal kind. 
rowe’s LUCAN. 
RICHES. 
CORN. 
We are assured by botanists that corn is no 
where found in its primitive state. It seems 
to have been confided by Providence to the 
care of man, with the use of fire, to secure to 
him the sceptre of the earth. With corn and 
with fire, all other gifts may be dispensed 
with or acquired. With corn alone we could 
