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the fir and pine, and its elegant spiral shape, 
contrasting with the broad spreading oak, is 
a no less happy contrast; whilst its stars of 
fasciculate foliage are displayed to additional 
advantage when neighbouring with the broad- 
leaved esculus, the glossy holly, the drooping 
birch, or the tremulous aspen.” 
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BONDS OF LOVE. 
HONEYSUCKLE. 
That sweet honeysuckle, which 
Is fair as fragrant. CARRINGTON. 
The woodbine wild, 
That loves to hang, on barren boughs remote, 
Her wreaths of flowery perfume. MASON. 
Tue honeysuckle sometimes amorously 
attaches its pliant branches to the knotted 
trunk of an ancient oak, and amid the rugged 
branches of that lordly tree, 
The woodbines mix in amorous play, 
And breathe their fragrant lives away. 
It was said that this feeble tree, thus shoot- 
ing into the air, would overtop the king of the 
forest; but, as if its efforts were unavailing, it 
soon recoiled, and with graceful negligence 
adorned its friendly supporter with elegant 
festoons and perfumed garlands. 





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