On this flush pomegranate bough.

See me! ’Tis this silvery bill

Ever cures the good man’s ill.

Shed no tear!—O shed no tear!

The flower will bloom another year.

Adieu!—adieu!—I fly, adieu—

I vanish in the heaven’s blue.

Adieu!—adieu!

—John Keats.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF SEED-BEARING PLANTS.