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JASMINE — WHITE. 
JASMINUM OFFICINALE. 
Amiability. e. 
I szwnp this flower to one made up 
Of loveliness alone ; 
A woman, of her gentler sex 
The seeming paragon: 
To whom the better elements 
And kindly stars have given 
A form so fair, that, like the air, 
*T is less of earth than heaven. 
Affections are as nought to her, 
The measure of her hours ; 
Her feelings have the fragrancy, 
The freshness, of young flowers. — 
O, would that on the earth there moved 
Others of such a frame; 
That life might be all poetry, 
And weariness a name. 
E. C. PINCKNEY, 
Sage 
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