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with its bubbling sounds and sparkling , odorous air , its beamy skies and rapid life ; and not the less do we enjoy it that we have made the most of its surly predecessor . Happiness is the true
transmuter for which science has always sought in vain- —the fuser of circumstances , the IthuriePs spear— - ' exalting the valleys , mat ing low the hills , and the rough places plain / of the journey of life : it alone can produce the miracle of figs on thorns and grapes Oa brambles : ' it is the golden sun which gilds all , * the blue sky bending over all . '
Springtime and flowers ! each day brings forth a new class in it ' s progress towards perfection . e Stars of the fields , the hills , the groves ! ' Who loves not flowers ? Be he who he may , he loves not friend or mistress , his species nor his country ; nay , truly loves hot himself , for all these are included in self . As to the more graceful sex , they may see in flowers types of their own nature , often emblems of their own fate . Flowers are utilitarians in the largest sense . Their very life is supported by administering to the life of others—producers and distributors , but consumers only of what , unused , would be noxious . Ornaments in happiness , companions in solitude , soothing ' the unrest of the soul / Hear what says the classic Roland—* La vue d'une fleur caresse mon imagination , et flatte mes sens a .
une point inexprimable ; elle reveille , avec volupte' le sentiment de mon existence . Sous le tranquil abri du toit paternel , jetois heureuse des enfance avec des fleurs et des livres ; dans l ' etroite enceinte d'une prison , au milieu des fers imposes par la tyrannie
la plus revoltante , j'oublie 1 'injustice des hommes , leurs sottises , et mes maux , avec des livres , et des fleurs . ' As impossible as to find two human countenances alike in all their features and expressions , is it to discover duplicate flowers . Who shall say how much of consciousness they may be endued with ? It will not be hastily decided that they are without it , by any who has watched and tended them ; who has seen in the morning their whole form bend towards light and the cheerful sun ; who knows at
evening to give the long deep draught of the element they love , and has seen the delicate fibres fill , and the colours brighten , and the stalks expand , and the leaves rise , and , by one consent , do obeisance like the sheaves of the Syrian boy ' s dream . And those which here we speak of are but the favourites of civilization , which , like their human prototypes , by their too abundant training , lose in strength what they gain in richness , which , after all , is but a bad exchange for the graces of nature and freedom . It is to those which l dwell in fields and lead ambrosial lives' that we must look
for the perfection of their beauty . ' Nor use can tire , nor custom stale their infinite variety - And when Spring ' s dancing hours have paved her path , they usher in the stately splendour of voluptuous summer—gorgeous in beauty like an Eastern queen . Gray ' s notion of felicity was to lie
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 827, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/35/
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