Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 51
THE USE OF FLOWERS. 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. We mio-ht have had enouo-h, enough For every want of ours,For luxury, medicine, and for toil, And yet have had no flowers. THE USE OF FLOWERS. ^5 The…
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