These, with the gums and balsams of the woods, form the main local fragrance-fountains of the storm.

Gently, Erminia, pour the Balsam in, That I may live, and taste the sweets of Love.

The pike, fell tyrant of the liquid plain, With ravenous waste devours his fellow train; Yet howsoe'er with raging famine pined, The tench he spares, a medicinal kind; For when by wounds distress'd, or sore disease, He courts the salutary fish for ease; Close to his scales the kind physician glides, And sweats a healing balsam from his sides.

But these men are wholly for judgment; of a rigid disposition themselves, there is no mercy with them, no salvation, no balsam for their diseased souls, they can speak of nothing but reprobation, hell-fire, and damnation; as they did Luke xi.

His musical, piny gossip is as savory to the ear as balsam to the palate; and, though he has not exactly the gift of song, some of his notes are as sweet as those of a linnetalmost flute-like in softness, while others prick and tingle like thistles.

Dr. R. Wight observes, that Balsams of the colder Hymalayas, like those of Europe, split from the base, rolling the segment towards the apex, whilst those of the hotter regions do the reverse.

They had seen Godfrey healed by a secret messenger from Heaven, who dropt celestial balsam into his wound.

Such softness, with the fragrance of the balsam like a sleeping potion, can not help but bring sweet dreams.

Oh, fair olive, Rich with the Spirit's unction, how thy boughs Rain balsams on us!