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INTRODUCTION. 
^ T was in that age when the golden 
mornings of the early world were 
unclouded by the smoke of cities, 
when the odors from thousands of 
untrodden flowers mingled with the 
aroma of old forests, and the gen¬ 
tlest wind that ever tried its wings, 
flapped its way through vast realms of sleeping fragrance, 
— that Love first set out to discover the long lost Lan¬ 
guage of the Flowers. For there had been rumors in 
the olden world, that before the winged lovers of Earth’s 
first daughters left their watch beside the star-beaconed 
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