THE FLOWERS OF EARLY JUNE. I. 149 
The author of “Faust” and of “Wilhelm Meister” 
was equally at home in botanical and anatomical studies, 
and bids fair to be remembered by his essay already 
mentioned and by his discovery of the intermaxillary 
bone. It was amid such studies ‘that he could acquire 
that calmness which utters itself in that little verse 
which Carlyle loved to quote: 
Wie das Gestirn 
Ohne Hast 
Aber ohne Rast 
Drehe sich jeder 
Um die eigne Last. 
“Like as a Star 
That maketh not haste 
That taketh not rest, 
Be each one fulfilling 
His god-given Hest.” 
Unhasting, unresting, come the flowers of early 
June. On the hilltop and in the valley, by the road- 
side and in the heart of the woodland, amid the grass 
in the meadow and in the tangle of the swamps, they 
are everywhere seen. June is a wild-flower month. 
They are then in their greatest abundance. They still 
have the delicacy of spring, not yet hardened into the 
coarser vigor of the summer and autumn. The sap is, 
