In the veinings of each leaflet,
In each flower's cells:
Ye have each a voice and lesson,
And ye seem to say:
"Open, man, thine eyes to see
In each flower, stone, and tree,
Something pure and something holy, as thou passest on thy way."'
F.C.W.
notes
1
See Chambers's Journal, No. 226, New Series.
2
See Lays from Strathearn, 4to.