“God might have made the earth bring forth 
Enough for great and small, 
The oak tree and the cedar tree, 
Without a flower at all. 
“ He might have made enough, enough, 
For every want of ours; 
For luxury, medicine and toil, 
And yet have made no flowers. 
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“Then wherefore, wherefore were they made 
All dyed in rainbow light; 
All fashioned with supremest grace, 
Upspringing day and night— 
“Springing in valleys green and low, 
And on the mountains high, 
And in the silent wilderness, 
Where no man passeth by? 
‘ ‘ Our outward life requires them not, 
Then wherefore had they birth? 
To minister delight to man, 
To beautify the earth; 
“To whisper hope—to comfort man 
Whene’er his faith is dim; 
For whoso careth for the flowers 
Will care much more for Him.” 
—Mary Hoivitt. 
THC ROCKWELL * CHURCHILL PRESS. BOSTON. 
