372 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 
This twofold use of the word may be a mere 
phililogical accident. But it suggests to our minds 
the thought which the botanist who first applied 
the term to the seed-case had, perhaps, in his—the 
analogy used by the apostle in teaching that the 
dead body, sown with tears, is as the seed, and 
the soul is as the germ, which lives on in trans- 
figured beauty when ‘‘ God giveth it a body, as it 
hath pleased Him.”’ 
Where each flower has perished, in garden or 
field, there is a seed, or more probably a pocket 
filled with seeds, each a prophecy and a pledge of 
the flowers which will gladden the earth next year. 
And each leaf, falling, leaves behind it a bud, from 
which a cluster of leaves or a cluster of flowers will 
unfold. 
All things have their price, both in the spiritual 
and in the natural world. Without the torpor of 
winter, the freshness and gladness of spring could 
never be. Semi-tropic lands which escape the one 
miss the other. Only to lands which have known 
,’ 
“‘the long dark nights and the snow’’ comes the 
ecstasy of the northern spring, when skies growing 
daily brighter, and earth awakening under them 
with joy foretell to us the ‘‘ new heavens and the 
new earth’’ wherein shall dwell righteousness. 
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