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elegance and beauty with this. In May and June every hedge- 
bottom and grassy slope is adorned with it.” Were these the 
beaming little blossoms that Shelley mentally beheld when he 
sang: 
“ Where, like an infant’s smile over the dead, 
A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread ”t 
But these bright blue emblems are not meant merely for 
fidelity to our departed dear ones. They are given us to love, 
admire, and make use of, to typify our feelings towards a nearer 
one and a dearer one than all other; and as such, fair reader, 
may you sincerely present and accept them. 
