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"Consider the lilies of the
field; even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."
Matthew 6:28 |
"O, fair day-lily whose
blossoms curl obliquely back, one whose summer's day the beauty's live
these into garlands may the maiden's twine."
Johann Strauss |
"More exauisite than any
other is the autumn rose." Theodore d'Aubigne |
"Love all creation, every
spring fern and newborn bud; every ray of God's light."
Dostoevsky |
"Blue thou art, intensely
blue! Flower whence came thy dazzling hue? Straightaway from
the firmament, was the sapphire brilliance sent."
James Montgomery |
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"The flaming crocus made the
mountain glow."
Homer |
"Many a verse I hope to write
'ere yet the bees hum about globes of clover and sweet peas." Keats |
"Fair flower, who dost hide
benath the greenwood shade, none fairer wakes on bank or spray; our
England's lily of the May, our lily of the vale!" Bishop Richard
Mant |
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