
















ILLUSTRATION OF FLOWER-WRITING. 

THE annexed plate furnishes an example of 
the facility with which the principles laid down 
in the preceding pages may be reduced to prac- 
tice. The subject is taken from the following 
song, by a French poet, the Chevalier Parny : 
Aimer est un plaisir charmant, 
C’est un bonheur qui nous enivre, 
Et qui produit ’enchantement. 
Avoir aimé, c’est ne plus vivre ; 
Hélas! c’est avoir acheté 
Cette accablante vérité, 
Que les sermens sont un mensonge, 
Que V’amour trompe tét ou tard, 
Que l’innocence n’est qu’un art, 
Et que le bonheur n’est qu’un songe. 
It may be thus rendered : 
“To love is a pleasure, a happiness, which 
intoxicates: to love no longer, is to live no 
longer ; it is to have bought this sad truth, that 
innocence is falsehood, that love is an art, and 
that happiness is a dream.” 




