MORAL OF FLOWERS. G5 j 
—Nature has scattered around us on every 
side, and for every sense, an inexhaustible pro- ' 
fusion of beauty and sweetness, if we will but 
perceive it;” for—to continue the same Avriter i 
—“ The pleasures we derive from flowers, from 
musical sounds, and the forms ' of trees, are 
surely not given us in vain, and if we are con¬ 
stantly alive to these, we can never be in want 
of subjects of agreeable contemplation, and must 
be habitually cheerful.” Yes most assuredly— | 
“God made the flowers to beautify 
The earth, and cheer man’s careful mood, 
And he is happiest who hath power 
To gather wisdom from a flower, 
And wake his heart in every hour 
To pleasant gratitude.”—W ordsworth. 
It is only in contemplations such as these, ' 
that we can hope to obtain true happiness; the 
feverish joys of the world are short-lived and ^ 
unsatisfactory; like gilded dreams that haunt | 
the sick man’s couch, making his waking hours 
more painful from the contrast, they are ever 
mingled with alloys; it is a poisoned chalice 
from which we drink the enchanted potion :— 
