50 LILIES. 
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LILIES—VICTORIA REGIA: ITS DISCOVERY—LOTUS OF EGYPT: 
LILIES MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE—TULIPS—CALLA LILY— 
JACOBEAN LILY. 
‘‘ Observe the rising lily’s snowy grace, 
Observe the various vegetable race ; 
They neither toil, nor spin, but careless grow, 
Yet see, how warm they blush! how bright they glow! 
What regal vestments can with them compare! 
What king so shining! or what queen so fair! 
If ceaseless thus the fowls of heaven He feeds, 
If o’er the earth such lucid robes He spreads ; 
Will He not care for you, ye faithless, say? 
Is He unwise? or, are ye less than they?” 
Wy, Ach many are the charms which 
Bee around this lovely and beau- 
tiful flower, of which it has been 
said by the great Redeemer, that 
1 «Solomon, in all his glory, was 
not arrayed like one of these!” 
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As an emblem of purity, some 
sae are peculiarly appropriate, their 
snow-white petals being unsullied by a stain; 
as while others are decked in all the rich ind 
glowing colors of the rainbow. 
