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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, 
The higher he’s a-getting ; 
The sooner will his race be: tae 
The nearer he’s a-setting. 

When youth and blood are warmer ; 
But being spent, the worse, and worst 
Times still succeed the former. 
Then be not coy, but use your time ; ; 
And while ye may, go marry ; 
For having lost but once your prime, 
You may forever tarry. 

SENSITIVE PLANT. 
(Bashful Love.) 
HIS delicate emblem of dashfulness is a member 
of the Mimosa family. In India it becomes a 
tall tree. 
The old pastoral poet, W. Browne, alludes to its pe- 
culiarities thus : 
That age is best, that is the first, 
** Look how the feeling-plant, which learned swains 
Relate to grow on the Hast Indian plains, 
Shrinks up his dainty leaves if any sand 
You throw thereon, or touch it with your hand.” 
Matthew Prior alludes to the diversity of opinion as 
to what causes this phenomenon : 

