260 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
ILLUSTRATION 
OF 
FLOWER-WRITING. 
The annexed plate furnishes an example of the 
facility with which the principles laid down in the 
preceding pages may be reduced to practice. The 
subject is taken from the following song, by a 
French poet, the Chevalier Parney : 
Aimer est un plaisir charmant, 
C'est un bonheur qui nous enivre, 
Et qui produit l'enchantement, 
Avoir aime, c'est ne plus vivre ; 
, • . Helas ! c'est avoir achete 
Cette accablante verite, 
Que les sermens sont un mensonge, 
Que l'amour trompe tot ou tard, 
Que l'innocence n'esl qu'un art, 
Et que le bonheur n'est qu'un songe. 
It may be thus rendered : 
" To love is a pleasure, a happiness, which in- 
toxicates : to love no longer is to live no longer ; 
it is to have bought this sad truth, that innocence is 
falsehood, that love is an art, and that happiness is a 
dieam." 
