Flowers and Gardens: Notes on Plant Beauty

The ecstasy of his delight in that dream abode with him, and lifted a bright light over the few hours of agony that intervened ere he slept again in the peace of Death. He believed a foretaste had been given him of that which remaineth for them that love God that He whose dying lips were touched with gall had given him a sweeter anodyne in his brief agony. The papers published in this little volume were written to solace the languor of the last months of life, when a malady, which had crept by slow approaches upon him, broke down his strength, and arrested a professional career which had begun but recently.
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