PRAYER.
Lady, I offer to you today poverty; I commit
myself to a detachment that the love of God demands.
There goes, Lady, my lemon-verbana together with the
rose: accept it and strengthen my resolutions

I. The lemon-verbena or aloysia

1. This plant has neither flower in its splendid branch nor
vanity but it has very fine fragrance and very sharp and
delicate odour; and moreover, it has special powerful effect on
the physical health. Although in itself this flower had no beauty,
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