MORAL OF FLOWERS. 
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the flower of the desert. 
BY MRS. HEMANS. 
“Who does not recollect the exultation of Vaillant 
over a flower in the torrid wastes of Africa ? The affecting 
mention of the influence of a flower upon the mind, by 
Mungo Park, in a time of suffering and despondency, in 
the heart of the same savage country, is familiar to every 
one.” J 
Howitt’s Book of the Seasons. 
Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast, 
O lonely, loneliest flower; 
Where the sound of song hath never pass’d 
From human hearth or bower? 
I pity thee, for thy heart of love, 
For that glowing heart, that fain 
Would breathe out joy with each wind to rove_ 
In vain, lost thing ! in vain ! 
