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Quotes by D. M. Moir

8 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

The foxglove, with its stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells; The wallflower, on each rifted rock, From liberal blossoms shall breathe down, (Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,) Its fragrance; while the hollyhock, The pink, and the carnation vie With lupin and with lavender, To decorate the fading year; And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie, And Nature seems but half alive.— filed under Flirting

Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity, - Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.— filed under Flowers-Rose

the Queen of Bohemia. Wallflower. Cheiranthus Cheiri. The Wall-flower-the Wall-flower, How beautiful it blooms! It gleams above the ruined tower, Like sunlight over tombs; It sheds a halo of repose Around the wrecks of time. To beauty give the flaunting rose, The Wall-flower is sublime. C.— filed under Flowers-Violet

Blackbird. The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash, 'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat, In adoration of the setting sun, Chants forth his evening hymn.— filed under Birds-Blackbird

Hawk. The winds are pillow'd on the waveless deep, And from the curtain'd sky the midnight moon Looks sombred o'er the forest depths, that sleep Unstirring, while a soft, melodious tune, Nature's own voice, the lapsing stream, is heard, And ever and anon th'unseen, night-wandering bird.— filed under Birds-Humming-Bird

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.— filed under Flowers-Gorse

"Look to the lilies how they grow!" 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.— filed under Flowers-Lily

Stars are the Daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky, Beheld by all, and everywhere, Bright prototypes on high.— filed under Stars