LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 



"The gentle flowers 



Retired, and stooping o'er the wilderness, 

 Talked of humility, and peace, and love." 



EGBERT POLLOK. 



OVER what barren spot is it, reader, that the 

 " gentle flowers" shed, with most effect, their 

 sanctifying influence ? Is it not over that moral 

 " wilderness," the heart of man, that they 

 " stoop," and " talk of humility, and peace and 

 love," till the stony places become fruitful, and 

 produce abundantly, good thoughts, pure wishes, 

 and holy desires and aspirations ; till the sterile 

 waste changes to a garden ? It is, and none 

 that have ever truly listened to their eloquent 

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