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^' There is a lesson in each flower, 

 A story in each stream and bower ; 

 On every herb on which you tread 

 Are written words which rightly read 

 Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod 

 To hope and holiness, and God. 



Allan Cunningham. 



The short sketch of" Our June Wild Flow- 

 ers," closed with an allusion to the perforated 

 St. John's Wort, * * famous for maidens wishing 

 to draw augury of marriage or death in the 

 coming year." I omitted, however, through 

 lack of spac 3, some of the most touching lines 

 ever penned on this German custom of gather- 

 ing this herb on the eve of St . John : to a- 

 tone for this more than venial sin, let this 

 sweet effusion now go forth : — 



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