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TIME. 
borrowed its purple hue and sweet perfume 
from Love : 
’Twas from Love, I borrowed, too, 
My sweet perfume, my purple hue. 
The white rose-bud may be an appropriate 
emblem of the heart of one too young to 
love, but it is far too delicate for those who 
are insensible from another cause, and of 
whom it may be said in the language of 
Thomson, 
E’en Love itself is bitterness of soul, 
A pensive anguish pining at the heart; 
Or, sunk to sordid interest, feels no more 
That noble wish, that never cloyed desire,' 
Which, selfish joy disdaining, seeks alone 
To bless the dearer object of its flame. 
TIME. 
WHITE POPLAR. 
The white poplar is one of the most 
valuable of our indigenous trees, and grows 
to the height of more than ninety feet, 
towering its superb head upon a straight 
silvered trunk. The ancients consecrated 
it to time, because the leaves are in conti- 
