LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
“ The gentle flowers 
Retired, and stooping o’er the wilderness, 
Talked of humility, and peace, and love.” 
Robert Pollok. 
Over what barren spot is it, reader, that the 
ee gentle flowers” shed, with most effect, their 
sanctifying influence ? Is it not over that moral 
u wilderness,” the heart of man, that they 
(e stoop,” and u 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 
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