The Language of flowers : an alphabet of floral emblems (1857)
London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 6
FLOWERS. Flowers are the bright remembrancers of youth ; They waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, The joyous hours that only young life knows, Ere we have leanit tliat this fair earth hides graves.
Flower language · Flowers in literature · Quotations, English
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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