OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 



II 



THAT is why I love above all the sim- 

 plest, the commonest, the oldest and 

 the most antiquated ; those which have 

 a long human past behind them, a 

 large array of kind and consoling ac- 

 tions ; those which have lived with us 

 for hundreds of years and which form 

 part of ourselves, since they refle6t 

 something of their grace and their joy 

 of life in the soul of our ancestors. 



But where do they hide themselves? 

 They are becoming rarer than those 

 which we call rare flowers to-day. 

 Their life is secret and precarious. It 

 seems as though we were on the point 

 of losing them, and perhaps there are 



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