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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
ILLUSTRATION 
OF 
FLOWER-WRITING. 
The annexed plate furnishes an example of the 
facility with which the principles laid down in 
the preceding pages may be reduced to practice. 
The subject is taken from the following song, by 
a French poet, the Chevalier Parny : 
Aimer est an plaisir charmant, 
C’est un bonheur qui nous enivre, 
Et qui produit l’enchantement. 
Avoir aimC, c’est ne plus vivre ; 
Hblas ! c’est avoir achetC 
Cette accablante vbritb, 
due les sermens sont un mensonge, 
due 1’amour trompe tot ou tard, 
due I'innocence n’est qu’un art, 
Et que le bonheur n’est qu’un songe. 
It may be thus rendered: 
“To love is a pleasure, a happiness, which 
intoxicates: to love no longer, is to live no 
longer; it is to have bought this sad truth, that 
innocence is falsehood, that love is an art, and 
that happiness is a dream.” 
