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Show I The Use of Flowers. I God might havo made the earth bring rorth Ihiough for great and small The oak tree and the ml.ir tlee, Without a flower nl all Vn might have had enough, enough I 'or every want of ours for luxury, medicine nnd toll And et have had no Doners. The one within the mountain mine Itequlreth not to grow, Nor doth It need the lotus llower To muke the river (low The clouds might give abundant tain; The nightly dews might tail. And the herb that keepcth life III man .Might vet have drunk thim all. Then wherefore wherefore were they made, All ded with rainbow light. All fashioned with snpremest grace, Unsprluglug day and night Springing In valleys green and low. And on the mountains high. And In the silent wilderness Wheie no man passes b " Our outward life requires them not-Then not-Then wherefore had thev birth? To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth To comfort man. to whisper hope. Whene'er his faith Is dim Tor whoso careth for the powers. Will much more care foi him -Mary llowltt. |