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| FLORA’S ALBUM. 
| The world is full of poetry, — the air 
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Eglantine, or Sweet Briar. 
PFETRY. 
Is living with its spirit; and the waves 
Dance to the music of its melodies, 
And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled 
And mantled with its beauty ; and the walis, 
That close the universe with crystal in, 
Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim 
The unseen glories of immensity, 
In harmonies too perfect and too high, 
For aught but beings of celestial mould, 
And speak to man in one eternal hymn, 
Unfading beauty, and unyielding power. 
James G. PERCIVAL. 
But a fetter of clay, that in slavery bound us; 
fair, 
| Oh! Woman and Poetry, each is a treasure, 
| A mine cf delight that enriches life’s span ; 
| The first is a ministering angel of pleasure ; 

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And if Poetry spread not its magic around us? 
While the gift of the next makes an angel of man! 


What to us were this world and its burden of care, 
Were our troubles not soothed by the smiles of the 
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