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THE ARBUTUS. 
ARBUTUS UNEDO.* 
- - “ Great Spring, before, 
Green’d all the year, and fruits and blossoms blush’d 
In social sweetness on the self-same bough." 
If this were the only criterion of the golden age, we 
might fancy, whilst gazing on the Arbutus, that it was 
returned again, for this beautiful tree is indeed 
-“ loadcn with fairest fruit. 
Blossoms and fruit at once.” 
But, alas ! short would be the illusion; for a moment¬ 
ary glance at some neighbouring tree would at once 
remind us we are yet in a fading, fallen world: for the 
Arbutus is profuse of its fruit and flowers when all the 
rest of the grove have “ fallen into the sere, the yellow 
leaf.” 
* Arbutus uncdo: the meaning for this word, “ you will eat but one." 
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