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Gleadall, Eliza Eve / The beauties of flora : with botanic and poetic illustrations, being a selection of flowers drawn from nature arranged emblematically : with directions for colouring them
(1834)
Flowers, pp. [v]-viii ff.
Page [v]
FLOWERS.
I do love Flowers ! They are the very Poetry of Nature: we read on their
glowing leaves
every sympathy of the human heart. The natives of the sunny east have
been their
interpreters, and a more beautiful language never owned translation !
How delightful the tales which the modest Violet and the tintless
Lily tell to the soul!
Where is the heart so dead as not to read volumes of feeling in the bell
of the Spring Crocus,
and on the more beautiful bosom of the Summer Rose ? There is something holy
in the
love shed upon these tinted children of Nature, these little silent portraitures
of Heaven:
we may scorn the tear which weeps the loss of a gemmed bandeau, or a diamond
tiara, for
they are but the types of vanity, but a fallen Rose and a trodden Violet
are holy in their
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