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FLOWERS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. 
There’s odour in the very name 
Which to the thoughtful brain, 
Comes with refreshing influence, 
Like April’s pleasant rain. 
The rose that to the sun’s warm kiss 
Uplifts its blushing cheek. 
Is but a rainbow-type of life 
Departing while we speak. 
S we turn over the leaves of the great book of nature, 
and examine the bright-hued, gracefully-formed, and 
perfume-haunted characters inscribed thereon ; when we 
muse upon the beautiful and holy thoughts, the refined fancies, 
and the tender and pleasant memories associated therewith ; we 
cannot fail to acknowledge gratefully the wisdom and goodness 
of Him who has scattered them so plentifully over the face of the 
earth, for man’s pleasure and instruction. 
Well and truly has it been said that "stars are the flowers of 
heaven," even as "flowers are the stars of earth and when 
those beautiful adorners of our terrestrial and transitory abiding- 
place are all withered and dead, then, as though to compensate 
for their loss, and to lift our hearts to the contemplation of higher 
and holier things than can be met with here, do the number and 
radiance seem to increase of those shining forms that sprinkle the 
expanse of that celestial realm where we are taught to look for 
our everlasting habitation. 
It was only natural, that from an early period, and throughout 
all lands, flowers should have been chosen as emblems of 
thoughts-and sentiments, and invested with a language of their 
own. Round many a flower beautiful thoughts cluster, and even 
He who was Lord of all, did not disdain, in the lessons He 
taught, to use as illustrations of great truths, the Lilies that toil 
