THE LILY 6i 



throwing back its scarlet petals and baring its 

 heart to the warmth^ might well stand for the 

 passionate lover of the Canticles. 



But the fathers of the Church held the flower 

 to be a lilium, and for the Church and for sacred 

 art it was and remains the lilium candidum. 



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From French MS. of \^th Ceniury 



