HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
29.1.2019 | 22:54
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY FROM THE
YORKTON AND DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY!
The Language of Flowers
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares: Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears. The rose is the sign of joy and love,— Young, blushing love in its earliest dawn; And the mildness that suits the gentle dove From the myrtle’s snowy flower is drawn. Innocence shines in the lily’s bell, Pure as a heart in its native heaven; Fame’s bright star, and glory’s swell, By the glossy leaf of the bay are given. The silent, soft, and humble heart In the violet’s hidden sweetness breathes; And the tender soul that cannot part, A twine of evergreen fondly wreathes. The cypress, that darkly shades the grave, Is sorrow, that mourns her bitter lot; And faith, that a thousand ills can brave, Speaks in thy blue leaves, forget-me-not.
Then gather a wreath from the garden bowers, And tell the wish of thy heart in flowers.
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