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to the deceitful image. Addison thus trans- 
lates the passage :— 
She saw him in his present misery 
Whom, spite of all her wrongs, she grieved to see; 
She answered sadly to the lover’s moan, 
Sighed back his sighs, and groaned to every groan ; 
** Ah, youth ! beloved in vain,” Narcissus cries— 
“Ah, youth ! beloved in vain,’’ the Nymph replies. 
“* Farewell,” says he; the parting sound scarce fell 
From his faint lips, but she replied, “ Farewell.” 
Then on the wholesome earth he gasping lies, 
Till death shuts up those self-admiring eyes. 
To the cold shades his flitting ghost retires, 
And in the Stygian waves itself admires. 
For him the Naiads and Dryads mourn, 
Whom the sad Echo answers in her turn! 
And now the sister-nymphs prepare his urn ; 
When looking for his corpse, they only found 
A rising stalk with yellow blossoms crowned. 
wena 
ELEGANCE. 
ACACIA ROSE. 
Art has produced nothing that may vie in 
freshness and in elegance of appearance with 
this beautiful flowering shrub; its inclining 
branches,—the gaiety of its verdure,—its clus- 
ters of rose-coloured flowers, like bows of 
ribands, hung on branches clothed with hairs 



