Scrapbook - Pressed Flowers, Hewitt

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Scrapbook - Pressed Flowers, Hewitt

Oliver green and brown leather. 'The Use of Flowers by Mary Hewitt.' The frontispiece reads: 'God might have bade the earth bring forth/ enough for great and small/ the oak tree and the cedar tree without a flower at all./ We might have had enough, enough/ for every want of ours/ Her luxury medicine and toil/ and yet have had no flowers./ Then wherefore, wherefore were they made/ alll dyed with rainbow light/ all fashioned with supremost grace/ Up springing day and night/ springing in valleys green and low/ and on the mountains high/ and in the silent wilderness/ where no man passes by?/ Our outward life requires them not/ then wherefore had they birth?/ To minister delight to many/ to beautify the earth/ to comfort man, to whisper hope/ when e'er his faith is dim/ her who so careth for the flowers/ will care much more for him!' Scrapbook of pressed flowers in very dellicate condition, notations indicating botannical names. (It is possible that Mary Hewitt was the young lady berothed to Frederick Sargent Huntington.)

Book

27.9 x 21.6 x 5.1 cm (11 x 8.5 x 2 in)

1900

2007-03-27

Box 07

ca. 1900

Hewitt