A DAILY MESSAGE
FLOWERS How universally flowers are entwined around the life and hopes of man! They onwreathe his cradle, festoon his marriage altar, twine around his tomb. To ancient and modern, pagan and Christian. Eastern and Western man, they speak a universal language. These lovely messengers speak for him, many times through life. They convey, so tenderly, his finest sympathies. They whisper to his beloved a tliouasml' exquisite tremulous hopes and fears. They bring to friends solace and peace. They carry his good will on days of remembrance, both glad and sad. They form the starry bridal coronet, and the snowy coronet of Death. They go with those lie loves to the quiet resting-place. They breathe for him his last farewell. And they form the canopy ’ncatli which he sleeps—him self—at last. From birth, through life, to death—■ and after—with the planting of the -rosemary for remembrance there stretches a garland of flowers—blossoms plucked from Nature’s breast — which have helped us to tell the truths hidden in our hearts to the friends who have told them back to us—in flowers.
—M. PRESTON STANLEY. 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 1
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185A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 1
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