The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-01
MERRY MAY-THE LESSONS AND Lam
GUAGE OF THE FLOWERS.

morning; placed there in the long ago by the
fair hand of one we worshipped then, ours
afterwards, ours no more cave through that
fateless faculty that hss conserved In change
less crystal cup the s,enographed sentiment
the coy maiden thus expressed and thus con-
fessed; and whose anniversary day in all these
years has never come 10 us less often than
the daily suns and the nightly sentinels. Its
> essence in us has never died, though, like
those lamps in Eastern tombs which light up
only when the air is admitted, or like the i'm
prisoned wine that commences its animal
sympathetic Preventative process in the
month its mother grape was plucked from
the wine, 1t exudes most its aromatic ar.
borescence in the opening of the spring. AS
ithas been TO us with violets, those sky-hued
angels of the grass, sweet evangelists, 30
doubtless in some shape, with each one OF our
readers, the spirit Of love has found lodg.
ment In the petals Of some flower that has
thus endeared 1t TO the memory and
enshrined Il there forever 10 its Utmost pal
ace chambers. Therefore. to-day, wheh all
nature 10 garlanded with the opulencs Of
floral loveliness. there can be scarcely anyone
that welcomes not those bowling fairies Of the
ether, cOquettng in their royal robes with
every Pasaing, whispering bretze.
And to each different wave OF air,
DO each a different OdOr bear.
Nmay be that the endearing connection lies
in the memory of one or more Of the leading
triple duties participated In by these repre-
sentatives Of FlorA's kingdom--at birth, at
the banquet or at the bier; the pure white
lily for the tirst, the orange blossom for
the next, and the rosemary for the
l~t. o., perchsnce, 1t may be
through some sacred tab mahal that holds
entombed "a little faded flower" along with
and pertaining lock Of silken hair. an in
fants slipper whose cherubed wesrer now
sleeps beneath the daisies; perchsnce. little
note, The last thSt some remembering angers
OF "a nea-sr one aud dsarer one," did ever
trace.
Aud these flowers have primordial
right thus to be preferred into recognition
and requisitop for all these occasions and
celebrations, since to all humanity the rich
and N"poor, the old and the young, the
strong aud the feeble, they disseminate their
various virtues to sense of sight and smell
with that ippartiality thatoelongs to the
democracy Of their realm. Aud they
have an ancestry tho twilight. of whose origin
antedates the apple blossoms in the garden
OF Eden, and which smiles at the claims of
any Ve'e-de-Vere. All through the ages they
have crowned the conqueror's banner, and
wresthed the brow of philosopher, poet,
painter, orator and musician; they have
decorated column and pilaster, or amen,ed
the walls Of wealth and woe, and done duty
Oh the affairs Of Deity; they were at the baby's
birth, the ms,den's marriage, and have GOV.
cred the cofins, the catafalque and the GEM
etery. They are In every way full worthy Of
their mission and their uses, whether we con-
slider the splendor Of their hues. the
iuimitable delicacy Of their perfume
the graceiulness Of their poie, or
their many merits as medicines. So, whe.h-
erwe have regard to the queenly rose upon
It's hillock, the modest violet in it, chas,o OBJ.
security, or the imperial lily the loved Of the
valley, we must concede that verify, verify.
Solomon in all his glory was not srrayed
like ua to ono Of these' Nor with all mis-
words Of wisdom could no speak like them,
whose pulsing purfumes, as sunbeams from
their sbeaves just burst, seem tuned rs they
leave their homes, to songs MS sweet as
breath Of angels signs. SO felt Picciola rs
the consoling flower crept through tho c-cv-
ices ofhis prison floor; and so fell! Mungo Park
as itssved him from tho dresry desor. DEATH
Their language Is always potent, so potent
that thu, In It's silence It's significant elo-
quense 10 used when the human lip grows
dumb, whether In the jessAmine bower where
the specifies lovers sit, at the caskct where
the mournen stasd, or over the grave where
the bruised heart kneels, and where they
keep uu,irng vigilance when perhaps some
recreant mate, relative or friend has too soon
forgotten its dead. Look we upon them
whenever wo please, as children Of the morn.
Ing kissed by The diamond dew, bAnq quoting
ournerves by the sweet tides Of perfume they
promiscaou'ly spill, or breskfas,ine
the murmuring bees that pursue
their voluptuous toll In tho sleepy shine;
or M daughters Of the day when The noon
sun straining and distilllng their colop thu,
thus glow like rainbow SEEDS in the summer
SAves; or ~ elans Of the evening q. on tho
breathing terraces they bashe their beauties
10 the moonbsams when
Having kept their odors all tho day,
Do thus M eunllgh, n died away,
Let the delicious seorets out,
10 every breesc that 'oams about,
they ars yet always and forever The mos,
omnipo,ent Of plsaders. They arc ever 70.
plete with the richness Of irref,,,