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Flowers; then might countries be 
re-plundered, Poland re-partitioned, 
kings seated firmly on their thrones, 
Turkey sold to Russia ; war, devas¬ 
tation, and misery, be allotted to 
thousands ; all plotted and arranged 
by the simple presentation of a bou¬ 
quet from one diplomatist to another. 
This would, indeed, be the climax of 
glory to me, Floribel, the Sylph of 
the Violet; and, were I in this to 
obtain a certain lord’s patronage, 
then would I exclaim with the poet: 
* Now is the horrid age of iron no more: 
Comes, than the golden age a brighter far, 
The blissful age of Flowers.’ ” 
