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There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower; In every herb on which you tread Are written words, which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth’s fragrant sod, To hope, and holiness, and God.
There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower; In every herb on which you tread Are written words, which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth’s fragrant sod, To hope, and holiness, and God.
Approximate author period: c. 1813 AD · industrial
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- Allan Cunningham
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- Approximate author period: c. 1813 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1785–1842)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 228 · printed citation: Allan Cunningham · subject: FLOWERS
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