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ILLUSTRATION OF FLOWER-WRITING. 
The annexed plate furnishes an example of 
the facility with which the principles laid down 
in the preceding pages may he reduced to prac¬ 
tice. The subject is taken from the following 
song, by a French poet, the Chevalier Parny : 
Aimer est un plaisir charmant, 
C’est un bonheur qui nous enivre, 
Et qui produit l’enchantement. 
Avoir aim<5, c’est ne plus vivre; 
Hdlas ! c’est avoir achete 
Cette accablante v£ritd, 
Que les sermens sont un mensonge, 
Que l’amour trompe t6t ou tard, 
Que l’innocence n’est qu’un art, 
Et que le bonheur n’est qu’un songe. 
It may he 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.” 
