the lily of the valley—maidenhood. 
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aspect was pleasing. At the present moment—animated, interested, 
touched—she might he called beautiful. Such a face was calculated 
to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of 
admiration; but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate : friendship, 
perhaps—affection, interest. 
C. Bronte 
P ASS not the Lilies of the vale 
Unmindful of their holy tale, 
But listen to the voice 
Which, from their flowerets fair. 
Would bid you to rejoice 
That you are God’s own care. 
No king can shine more bright than they, 
Though decked with art in rich array, 
Still must his glories yield 
To flowers that careless grow,— 
The Lilies of the field; 
Which toil not, spin, nor sow. 
If God so clothe a fading flower, 
Born but to perish in an hour. 
With raiment bright and fair, 
Will He not much more grant 
To man, His chiefest care, 
All things that he doth want? 
