Thus singeth that true poet of 
America, Longfellow, in allusion 
to the saying of Goethe, who first 
called the flowers “ the stars of 
the earththe Poetry of earth, 
they might be termed,—the lan¬ 
guage in which she expresses her 
most fervent thoughts and desires, 
even as the stars are, according to 
Byron, “ the poetry of heaven,” 
or as another poet has said, the 
flowers of heaven 
V* And the vast concave blossomed oat in 
stars.” 
But the little work for which we 
are now writing an introductory 
chapter, has more especially to do 
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