



The Cee of Flowers, 

Mary Howitt. 


OD might have made the earth bring forth 
HKnough for great and small, 


The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, 
Without a flower at all. 
We might have had enough, enough 






For every want of ours, 



For luxury, medicine and toil, 


And yet have had no flowers. 







The one within the mountain mine i 
Requireth none to grow ; | 
Nor doth it need the lotus-flower | 
To make the river flow. | 
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The clouds might give abundant rain ; 
The nightly dews might fall, 


Might yet have drunk them all. 


And the herb that keepeth life in man 








