TIIE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
“ The gentle flowers 
Retired, and stooping o’er the wilderness, 
Talked of humility, and peace, and love.” 
Robert Poleok. 
Over what barren spot is it, reader, that the 
“ gentle flowers” shed, with most effect, their 
sanctifying influence? Is it not over that 
moral “ wilderness,” the heart of man, that 
they “ stoop,” and “ talk of humility, and 
peace, and love,” till the stony places become 
fruitful, and produce abundantly, good 
thoughts, pure wishes, and holy desires and 
aspirations ; till the sterile waste changes to 
a garden ? It is, and none that have ever 
truly listened to their eloquent preaching, have 
ever turned away unimproved and uninstruct- 
ed, for : — 
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