THE EL O TVER LANGUA GE. /1 
Poets have always found in flowers the highest objects 
of admiration, and, in their descriptions and allusions to 
them, the imagination has had free flight. They have at¬ 
tributed'to them all the passions and thoughts of the 
Human mind and heart, and made them express almost 
every human virtue and folly. 
“ Round every flower there gleams a glory, 
Bequeathed by antique song or story ; 
To each old legends give a name, 
And its peculiar charm proclaim. 
O’er smiling fawn, through shady grove, 
\ Our dreaming poets pensive rove, 
And strive to read their language rare. 
And learn the lesson latent there.” - i 
