This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... THE VOICES OF FLOWERS. "Blessed be God for flowers, -- For the bright, gentle, holy thoughts that breathe From out their odorous beauty, like a wreath Of sunshine on life's hours." THE WANDERINGS OF FLOWERS--TENACITY OF LIFE--HELP TO FORM SOILS FROM ROCKS--TRAVELLING SEEDS--THE POLLEN MYSTERIES OF ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... THE VOICES OF FLOWERS. "Blessed be God for flowers, -- For the bright, gentle, holy thoughts that breathe From out their odorous beauty, like a wreath Of sunshine on life's hours." THE WANDERINGS OF FLOWERS--TENACITY OF LIFE--HELP TO FORM SOILS FROM ROCKS--TRAVELLING SEEDS--THE POLLEN MYSTERIES OF FRAGRANCE AND COLOR. HERE are voices that are eloquent though they utter no sounds. There are beauti p ful faces that speak of innocence and 0 J love with looks which affect our hearts more rapidly through our eyes than could words however skilfully presented. And on the faces *-of little flowers how plainly can we read thoughts of beauty, of modesty, and of design, which the longest description would fail to picture to our minds as faithfully as does one short vision! A beautifully-carved image has neither soul nor mind; yet how eloquently it may speak of the sculptor's design and of his thoughts of beauty! Every little flower is a word in the wide-sprecid language of flowers, every fruit a sentence, every sprig of moss and blade of grass a conjunction or particle, a little word, which helps to add interest to the whole; and the history of each, in its efforts for life, forms a volume in the large library of flowers and plants scattered from the equator even to the ice-bound regions of the farthest North. Few are aware how widely spread throughout the world are the plants and flowers, and some trees, the names of which are so common, and which are mentioned even in the smallest school-book on botany. Few consider what wanderers they have been. The lily, the tulip, the walnut, the cherry, the vine, with others, seem to have started into existence in soils far east of Europe, and even of Syria* Most of the flowers and plants which add such...
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