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Anonymous (A Lover of Flowers), The Lover’s Language of Flowers; Expressive of the Sentiments of the Heart (London: W. Nicholson & Sons, c. 1872), 11-12:
O lovely flowers, this world would be drear and desolate without you! Are you not the reminescences of the former paradise,—left unscathed by sin, to tell how much man has lost? . . .
Anonymous (A Lover of Flowers), The Lover’s Language of Flowers; Expressive of the Sentiments of the Heart (London: W. Nicholson & Son...
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