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MORAL OF FLOWERS. 
“ Floral apostles ! that in dewy splendor 
Weep without woe, and blush without a crime, 
Oh! may I deeply learn, and ne’er surrender 
Your lore sublime!”— Horace Smith. 
Learned historians, and deep-thinking philo¬ 
sophers, have turned them from the momentous 
events of passed away times, and the labors of 
scientific research, to admire your beauties, and 
speak of the moral ye convey. What says 
Fuller, the sententious ? u A flower is the 
best complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best 
colored clay, and daily it weareth God’s livery. 
Solomon himself is outbraved therewith, as 
whose gallantry only was adopted, and on him, 
their’s innate and in them. In the morning 
(when it groweth. up) it is a lesson of Divine 
Providence; in the evening (when it is cut 
down, withered) it is a lesson of human mor¬ 
tality.” • After this, who shall affirm that ye are 
useless ? What advocate of utility will start up 
and deny the truth of the following lines ?— 
“Yet spite of all this eager strife, 
The ceaseless play, the genuine life, 
