Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-05-25
Flowers.

What a volume of thought and feel
ing is contained in the simple flower
As the lightnings which fash along
the armament of heaven, or the thun.
ders which startle the silence of eter-
nifty, are typical of Gods anger and
might, so is the beauty and simplicity
of flower typical of His purity and
mercy.
A flower is no insignificant object.
1t is fraught with many deep though
mute lesson of wisdom. 1t teaches
us that even Itself the brightest orna-
ment of the vegetable world, must
fade away and die-and the life which
we prize so highly may be seen, as i'll
a mirror, through its different changes.
The withered leahet is like unto a
crushed and broken heart. Its fading
loveliness is like the approach of age
as it throws its mantle Of wrinkled
care over the form of some lovely
specimen of humanity. Its sweet fra
GRANGE is like the joys and pleasures
of our breasts ere they have been con-
taminated by the rude touches of the
world.
The dew-drop which at mornings
dawn, rests upon the half-open bud, is
like the tear which dims the infants
speaking eye when his childish glee
has been reproved by the voice of af-
lection.
A flower represents mankind in the
changes of infancy, youth, manhood,
and old age. The young bud is infan-
cy the bursting flower is youth f; the
flower full blown is manhood and the
withered and falling leaf is the type
of old age. aa .-
Its uses are various and manifold
Sometimes the promptings of affection
lead us to place it, in its purity and
beauty, over the tomb of some below
ed friend, where, shedding around its
fragrance, it steals upon our senses
like the memory Of the departed be-
ings beneath. Sometimes the hand OF
pride will pluck it from its stem, to
deck the hair of the blooming bride,
or add by its odor to the festive scene
And not unfrequently it is the mute
bearer of some fond tale Of love to tho
ecstatic sense of her whose heart anC
feelings are at length justified, by It's
sweet language, in the thoughts they
SO long have harbored 1t soothes tn,
cares of the troubled soul, and allevi
ates the pangs of sorrow. 1t wins
upon MS 10y its modest though bloom
. ing appearance, and its gentle infu
ence steals into our bosoms and soften.
our natures.
4 Study the flowers, and behold th'
wisdom, the goodness, and mercy o
the Almighty. Anatomize them, an,
|, behold the innumerable parts whicl
form and make up the whole, and tn,
system and order with which they ar,
joined together.
!, Refinement dwelleth among the flow
ers. There the affections of our heart
, are given license to rove, and ther
{ the enthusiasm of our nature over
comes the diffidence of our feelings
! Voluntary homage arises to the make
: of objects SO fair and beautiful, an,
the soul in the contemplation sighs i,
self away in delicious reverie. No
: less beautiful than truly has it beel
said -
: There is religion ina flower;
Its still small voice is the voice OF conscience.
Mountains and oceans, planets, suns and systems,
. Bear not the impress of Almighty power
In characters more legible than th,se
Which he has traeea upon the uniest HOVER
Whose light bell bends beneath the dew drops weight
Gen. Butler has announced his il
t tention of resuming his law practice
aud engaging in the manufacture Q