 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. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers.  THE SABBATH SCHOLARS' TREASURY AND JUVENILE - Page 59by Thomas Pat ton - 1865Full view - About this book
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 | 1838 - 444 pages
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