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Title: Old-fashioned flowers and other oper-air essays
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949
Subjects: Flowers
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ys; and, knowing not what to do in the glowing disarray of hours that have no shadow, dreads ing lest they should be deceived and lose a single second that might be fair, they have resolved to bloom without respite from January to De^ cember. Nature approves them and, to reward their trust in happiness, their generous beauty and their amor^ ous excesses, grants them a force, a brilliancy and perfumes which she never gives to those which hang back and show a fear of life.68 NEWS OF SPRING All this, among other truths, wasproclaimed by the little house that Isaw to-day on the side of a hill alldeluged in roses, carnations, wall^flowers, heliotrope and mignonette,so as to suggest the source, chokedand overflowing with flowers, whenceSpring was preparing to pour downupon us; while, upon the stonethreshold of the closed door, watersmelons, lemons, oranges, limes andTurkey figs slumbered peacefully inthe steel-blue shade and amid themajestic, deserted, monotonous silenceof a perfect day. 69
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Aii.lrx A 6Wit.lt. U>L Foxglove and Dog-rose. /. -/. Field FlowersI They welcome our steps without the city gates, on a gay and eager carpet of many colours, which they wave madly in the sunlight. It is evident that they were expecting us. When the first bright rays of March ap^ peared, the Snowdrop or Winter^bell, the heroic daughter of the hoar-frost, sounded the reveille. Next sprang from the earth efforts, as yet shapeless,71 FIELD FLOWERS of a slumbering memory, vague ghosts of flowers, pale flowers that arc scarcely flowers at all: the Threc^ fingered or Rue ^leaved Saxifrage; the almost invisible Shepherd^s Purse; the Two cleaved Squill; the Helle^ bore, or Christmas Rose; the Colts^ foot; the gloomy and poisonous Spurge Laurel: all plants of frail and doubtful health, pale^blue, pale^ pink, undecided attempts, the first fever of life in which nature expels her illhumours, anaemic captives set free by Winter, convalescent patients from the underground prisons, timid72 FIELD

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