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Upon the summit of the rounded hill All ...
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Sad And Appalling As Are Some Of The D.E...
able proportion of elderly females are found , but this is not the case with artificial florists . Is this owing to the emerald green ?
But the worst portion of the work is that performed by the children . The picking disturbs the " powder" more than the
spinning in the tying process ; and besides , much of the powder is dislodged before the adult takes the pieces .
Most colors , as peach , pink , & c , are rinsed in some preparation which _" sets the powder" but green is never rinsedso that the
pieces come froni the stamper , as powdery as though they , had been dipped in thick whiting .
Blue , that is , the deepest shades , are not rinsed either , and this powder also " gives the hands cold , " ( I speak in the language of
florists with whom I have conversed on the subject , and I judge it to be as intelligible as any description that I can convey ) but it is
not nearly so bad as the green . It would not be possible , to continue on green more than a week , or at most ten days . Some have
attempted it , but the result has generally been fatal , and at the time I writea girl lies dead through her temerity in persisting in
, such an attempt . " Can wrong be right ? " Can poisoning on ever so small and
gradual a scale be justified ? Will not health and life weigh against the whims of ladies who admire green wreaths ? There is .
little hope that they will . . * Howeverwe have exposed the practice and its resultsand if
some few should , forego their taste in the _jDurchasing of artificial , flower devices , declining- the greenand discouraging its adoption
in others , the exposure will not be in , vain .
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Upon The Summit Of The Rounded Hill All ...
Upon the summit of the rounded hill All lowly in the field a cypress grows ;
The echoes of the city there are still , And far below the silent river flows .
In her own strength she lifteth up her head , Her sisters grow togetherbut she stands
, In a bleak spot whence younger trees have fled , A mark upon the stretch of barren lands .
She looks upon the Sunrise , and he flings Her own straight shadow at her feet—she sees
, The grey mists gather when the nightbird sings , —
And her tall sisters rock in the cool breeze .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/26/
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