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: THE USE OF FLOWERS. 
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Ne might have bade eis enith bring forth 
Nl Do: Enough for great and small, 
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iM ‘ The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, 
2 : Without a flower at all. 
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We might have had enough, enough 
For every want of ours, 
For luxury, medicine, and toil, 
? And yet have had no flowers. 
The ore within the mountain mine 
Requireth none to grow; 
Nor doth it need the lotus-flower 
To make the river flow. 
