THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
THE USE OF FLOWERS. 
3 might have made the earth bring forth 
Enough for great and small, 
The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, 
Without a flower at all. 
We might have had enough, enough 
For every want of ours, 
For lux’ry, medicine, and toil, 
And yet have had no flowers. 
The ore within the mountain mine 
Kequireth none to grow; 
Nor doth it need the lotus-flower 
To make the river flow. 
The clouds might give abundant rain, 
The nightly dews might fall, 
