68 MORAL OF FLOWERS. 
are the ‘‘visible tokens of the upholding Love !” 
so are ye gifted Avith faculties and perceptions 
to know and understand the errand of mercy 
on which ye are sent, and to rejoice in being 
made the instruments of divine bounty and 
goodness. Ye participate in our joys and our 
sorrows, weeping tears of balm to console us in 
the time of adversity, and enhancing with your 
smiles of innocent gaiety the pleasures of our 
prosperous days; but of our crimes ye know 
nothing ; in our schemes of aggrandizement or 
projects for the accumulation of wealth, ye take 
no part, for base passions and sordid desires are 
incompatible with the purity of your natures :— 
“ To me ye seem 
Like creatures of a dream— 
Aerial phantoms of delight; 
I can hut deem ye much 
Too pure for mortal touch, 
Ye are so very fair, so passing bright.”—H. Gl. A. 
The friendships and affections ye entertain 
one for another, though warm as the sunbeams 
wherein ye delight to bask, are of an ethereal 
character, and stainless as the dews by which 
