"Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty,……" — Thomas de Quincey

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds,… - Thomas de Quincey
"Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these."

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