FAMILIAR 

 GARDEN FLOWERS 



FIGURED BY 



F. EDWARD HITLME, F.L.S., F.S.A. 



AND DESCRIBED BY 



SHIRLEY HIBBERD 



" The 'loveliest flowers the closest cling- to earth, 

 And they first feel the sun : so violets blue ; 

 So the soft star-like primrpse drenched in dew— 

 The happiest of spring's happy, fragrant birth. 



. To gentlest touches sweetest tones reply. 

 Still humbleness with her low-breathed voice 

 Can steal o'er man's proud heart, and win his choice 

 From earth to heaven, with mightier witchery 

 Than eloquence or wisdom e'er could owu. 

 Bloom on then in your shade, contented bloom, 

 Sweet flowers, nor deem yourselves to all unknown, — 

 Heaven knows you, by whose gales and dews ye thrive ; 

 They know, who one day for their altered doom 

 Shall thank you, taught by you to abase themselves and live." 



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