70 MORAL OF FLOWERS. 



"Floral apostles ! that in dewy splendor 



Weep without Avoe, and blush without a crime, 

 Oh ! may I deeply learn, and ne'er surrender 



Your lore sublime !'" HORACE SMITH. 



Learned historians, and deep-thinking philo- 

 sophers, have turned them from the momentous 

 events of passed away times, and the labors of 

 scientific research, to admire your beautieb, and 

 speak of the moral ye convey. What says 

 FULLER, the sententious ? " A flower is the 

 best complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best 

 colored clay, and daily it weareth God's livery. 

 Solomon himself is outbraved therewith, as 

 whose gallantry only was adopted, and on him, 

 their's innate and in them. In the morning 

 (when it groweth up) it is a lesson of Divine 

 Providence ; in the evening (when it is cut 

 down, withered) it is a lesson of human mor- 

 tality.'' After this, who shall affirm that ye are 

 useless ? What advocate of utility will start up 

 and deny the truth of the following lines r 



"Yet spite of all this eager strife, 

 The ceaseless play, the genuine life, 



