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Thus have we endeavoured to teil the story 
of the flowers :— 
‘The intelligible forms of ancient poets, 
The fair humanities of old religion, 
The power, the beauty, and the majesty, 
That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, 
Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring,” 
have passed before us, leaving us, we trust, 
many pleasant thoughts for companions, and 
casting a fresh radiance, reflected from the 
Past, upon the buds and blossoms of To-day. 
We will close our floral discussion with Leigh 
Hunt’s playful lines on the language of 
flowers, or an Albanian love-letter. 
THE ALBANIAN LOVE-LETTER. 
An exquisite invention this, 
Worthy of Love’s most honied kiss, 
This art of writing billet-doux 
In buds, and odours, and bright hues, — 
In saying all one feels and thinks 
In clever daffodils and pinks, 
Uttering (as well as silence may) 
The sweetest words the sweetest way : 
How fit, too, for a lady’s bosom, 
The place where billet-doux repose ’em ! 













