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Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies - Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies
EAN 8596547218159
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS
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V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
NEWS OF SPRING
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III
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V
FIELD FLOWERS
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III
CHRYSANTHEMUMS
II
III
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V
ILLUSTRATIONS
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OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS
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[Image unavailable.]OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS
THIS morning, when I went to look at my flowers, surrounded by their white fence, which protects them against the good cattle grazing in the field beyond, I saw again in my mind all that blossoms in the woods, the fields, the gardens, the orangeries and the green-houses, and I thought of all that we owe to the world of marvels which the bees visit.
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? If these did not exist, if they had all been hidden from our gaze, as are probably a thousand no less fairy sights that are all around us, but invisible to our eyes, would our character, our faculties, our sense of the beautiful, our aptitude for happiness, be quite the same? We should, it is true, in nature have other splendid manifestations of luxury, exuberance and grace; other dazzling efforts of the superfluous forces: the sun, the stars, the varied lights of the moon, the azure and the ocean, the dawns and twilights, the mountain, the plain, the forest and the rivers, the light and the trees, and lastly, nearer to us, birds, precious stones and woman. These are the ornaments of our planet. Yet but for the last three, which belong to the same smile of nature, how grave, austere, almost sad, would be the education of our eye without the softness which the flowers give! Suppose for a moment that our globe knew them not: a great region, the most enchanted in the joys of our psychology, would be destroyed, or rather would not be discovered. All of a delightful sense would sleep for ever at the bottom of our harder and more desert hearts and in our imagination stripped of worshipful images. The infinite world of colours and shades would have been but incompletely revealed to us by a few rents in the sky. The miraculous harmonies of light at play, ceaselessly inventing new gaieties, revelling in itself, would be unknown to us; for the flowers first broke up