FUNERAL FLOWERS. 
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MRS. HE MANS AND L. E. L. 
A touching and graceful compliment was once paid to 
L. E. L. It was a tribute from America, sent from the 
far-off banks of the Ohio—a curious species of the Michigan 
rose, accompanied by a prayer that she would plant it on 
the grave of Mrs, Hemans. To no hand could it have 
been more appropriately transmitted, than to the hand 
which wrote so reverently and rapturously of that gifted 
woman.”— Life and Literary Remains of L, E. L. 
The author of the above work, Laman Blanchard, in 
the introduction, mentions a very beautiful expression of 
L. E. L., when writing of a great author, lately dead:— 
“ I almost fear to praise such a man; but comfort myself 
with thinking that though few can raise the carved marble 
over a great author’s remains, all may throw a flower on 
Ms grave.” How touchingly beautiful are L. E. L.’s 
Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans; well may she 
repeat from this lamented authoress’ “ Lays of Many 
Lands,” — “ The rose, the glorious rose, is gone,” and 
continue:— 
Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute— 
Bring flowers—the bride is near ; 
Bring flowers to soothe the captive’s cell, 
Bring flowers to strew the bier ! 
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