THE LANGUAGE OP PL0WEB3. 
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Oh, yes I be sure — 
“ Tlie simple flowers and streams 
Are social and benevolent, and he 
.Who holdeth converse in their language pure, 
Roaming amid them at the cool of day, 
Shall find, like him who Eden’s garden drest, 
The Maker there, to teach the listening heart.” 
Mbs. Sigourney. 
*• Flowers,” says Mb. Phillips,* “ formed a 
principal feature in symbolical language , which 
is the most ancient, as well as the most natu- 
ral, of all languages.” It was an easy transi- 
tion, after they had come to be regarded as 
proofs and manifestations of divine love, 
goodness, and protection, to make them the 
signs and symbols of human feelings and 
passions ; hence hopes, fears, and desires, joys 
and sorrows, and all the sentiments and emo- 
tions which sway and agitate the soul of man, 
have had their appropriate expression in these 
mute, yet eloquent letters of the blooming 
“ alphabet of creation — 
• Flora Histories. 
