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Title: Every life a delight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Potts, James Henry, 1848-1942
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e wintry hours; They break forth in glory—bring flowers, bright flowers. The flowers are of too great variety even to name here, butthe old favorites always please us. There is the rose, praised byboth Homer and Hesiod. The wild varieties seem to havebloomed everywhere. The common rose was carried from Holland into Englandas long ago as 1522, and the moss rose in 1596. The China andJapan roses were introduced there in 1790. The yellow rose came from Persia. The damask rose wasbrought from Southern Europe by a physician to Henry VIII. Legend says that the rose is a symbol of secrecy. Theancients hung it over their banqueting tables to indicate thatwords uttered there were not to be repeated outside, hence theexpression sub-rosa, under the rose. The lily has always been about as much of a favorite as therose. Consider the lilies. Royalty gloried in the lily. Franceadopted it as her emblematic flower. Gethsemane was aflamewith it. The story runs that in the presence of the sorrowing 88
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WILD ROSES Lifes Morning Glee Master, while other flowers were gay, the lilies bowed theirheads in sympathy, while each little bell was full of penitenttears. The violet, too, is richly loved. It was Shakespearesfavorite— Violets dim,But sweeter than the lids of Junos eyes. Then there is the daisy, a short word for days eye, abound-ing with love signs. It is told that girls pull off the white petalsof the daisy one by one, saying with the first, He loves me,and with the second, He loves me not; and then they think thattheir fate in love will be like the words spoken with the lastpetal. The tulip must also be mentioned. It is a native of theLevant, and first came into wide notice in 1559. The Europeanswent wild over it, paying fabulous prices (six thousand dollarsin one case) for single bulbs. The price was finally limited bygovernment action. The dahlia can not be ignored. It came from Mexico.Humboldt carried it to Europe in 1790. A Swedish botanistnamed Dahl engaged in its cultivat

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