Whene'er thou meet'st my eye,

O flower, from thee I borrow,

Thoughts for eternity.

Farewell! the woes of earth

No more my soul affright;

Who knows their temporal birth

Can easy bear their weight.

5: She received great benefit from decoctions of this herb, and often prescribed it to others.

I do confess this is a paraphrase, not a translation, also, that in the other extracts, I have taken liberties with the original for the sake of condensation, and clearness. What I have written must be received as a slight and conversational account, of the work.

Two or three other remarks, I had forgotten, may come in here.