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| the various p 
Wi windows.”’ 
| | In the gardens of the East, Flora receives 
il the homage due for her widely-scattered and 
i | Il li various gifts. Oh! flowers—flowers—we may 
iil well think them the “‘alphabet of the angels,” 
But how coldly do we look on them; how 
often are we regardless of their charms sce 
while in other lands they almost subser 
assengers who pass their latticed 
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use of writing,—expressing by a blossom, joy, 
grief, hope, despair, devotion, piety, and almost 
every sentiment that fills the mind. 
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, 
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares ; 
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, 
On its leaves a mystic language bears, 

The rose is the sign of joy and love, 
Young blushing love in its earliest dawn ; 
And the mildness that suits the gentle dove, 
From the myrtle’s snowy flower is drawn. 

Innceence dwells in the lily’s bell, 
Pure as a heart in its hative heaven ; 
