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How sweetly blooms 
Upon the slopes the azure blossom’d flax ! 
How wave the grassy seas of sheltered fields, 
Triumphant o’er the solitudes around, 
Less happy, where the cultiyator’s hand, 
Creating, comes not. If to him belongs 
The name of benefactor of mankind, 
“ Who makes two blades of cheerful grass to grow 
Where but one grew before,” what meed is thine, 
Tyrwhitt, who, for the unprofitable heath, 
The lichen, and the worthless moss, that erst 
Crept o’er the hill, hast round thy highland home, 
A belt of generous verdure thrown, and bade 
A sweet oasis in the desert rise 
Upon the traveller’s admiring eye ? 
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MISTLETOE. 
All your temples strow 
With laurel green, and sacred mistletoe. 
GAY. 
Tue misletoe is a parasitical plant, growing 
chiefly on the summit of fruit trees, though the 
proud oak sometimes becomes its slave, and 
yields its own substance to support it. “ The 
Druids sent round their attendant youths with 
branches of the mistletoe, to announce the 
entrance of the new year ;” and something like 
this custom is said still to be continued in 
France; and our English friends, who main- 






















