68 MORAL OF FLOWERS. 



are the " visible tokens of the upholding Love !* 

 so are ye gifted with faculties and perceptions 

 to know and understand the errand of mercy 

 on which ye are sent, and to rejoice in being 

 made the instruments of divine bounty and 

 goodness. Ye participate in our joys and our 

 sorrows, weeping tears of balm to console us in 

 the time of adversity, and enhancing with your 

 smiles of innocent gaiety the pleasures of our 

 prosperous days ; but of our crimes ye know 

 nothing ; in our schemes of aggrandizement or 

 projects for the accumulation of wealth, ye take 

 no part, for base passions and sordid desires are 

 incompatible with the parity of your natures : 



"To me ye seem 



Like creatures of a dream 

 Aerial phantoms of delight; 



I can but deem ye much 



Too pure for mortal touch, 

 Ye are so very fair, so passing bright." H. G. A. 



The friendships and affections ye entertain 

 one for another, though warm as the sunbeams 

 wherein ye delight to bask, are of an ethereal 

 character, and stainless as the dews by which 



