OB, LANGUAGE OF FLO WEBS. 25 
Flowers are the emblems of heaven, and 
of heaven’s bliss. “Flowers,” says one, 
“'are antitypes of the angelic, and meet 
tokens of the world of beauty, which lies 
beyond the vestibule of the future life.” 
How beautiful is the figurative description 
of heaven by the well known words of Dr. 
AYatts:— 
There everlasting spring abides, 
And never-withering flow’rs; 
Death, like a narrow sea, divides 
This heavenly land from ours. 
Another poet thus describes the heaven¬ 
ly Eden:— 
Thy gardens and thy goodly walks 
For evermore are green; 
Contrasted with thy pleasant flowers, 
All ours on earth are mean. 
Jerusalem! thou fragrant land! 
What are our spices here, 
Balm, honey, nard, and cinnamon, 
AVhich we account so dear ? 
Our nectar and ambrosia sweet, 
Our violets, roses, all 
Are scentless, when compared with those 
AVhose petals never fall. Gu. 
