...my life to spare, I hope I shall reward thy care, MY MOTHER. THE USE OP FLOWERS. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar 0) tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough, For every want of ours, For...

...bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen. PERCT BTSSHE SHELLET. FLOWERS. God might have bade the earth bring forth...oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of oure, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet...

...grace be given To wait His will — to mate that will our own ! THE USE OF FLOWERS. By MARY HOWITT. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for...oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have...

...beautiful little piece on ' The Use of Flowers ;' I am hardly ever tired of reading or hearing it: — ' God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for...oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. ' Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed in rainbow light, All fashion' d with eupremest...

...1 may such grace on me be shed, And make my end like thine. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,...oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made indeed enough, For ev'ry want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet...

...neither sin nor sorrow knew. THE USE OF FLOWERS. BY MAKY HOWITT. GOD might have bade the earth bring fonh Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, nnd toil, And yet...

...hearts capable of understanding and learning something from all his wondrous works of creation : " God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, — The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all; He might have made enough, enough For every want...

...; Then gather a wreath from the garden bowers, And tell the wish of thy heart in flowers.' Pereieal God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the eedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours : For...

...ere they flee, Youth's flower and its fair blossoming, Be given, my God, to Thee. Summer. CM 1 /lOD might have bade the earth bring forth " Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. 2 He might have made the herbs enough For every...

...mountains like the shadow of God, and than the great rivers that move like ilia eternity." — Ruskin. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough'...oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. \Ve might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have...