Suggested by reading an account of the very ancient Willow which still stands in what were once the gardens of Semiramis, at Babylon, with which it is supposed to have been coeval.
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BY MRS. E. L. CUSHING.
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Oh, solitary tree!
Living memento of the mighty Past!
Strange, dreamy images the mind o’ercast,
As dwell its thoughts on thee.
Where roved Semiramis
Thou still doth stand—perchance her foot she staid