Excerpt from Wayside Pansies Flora's Favors. Oct 17, 1888 I would that I ruled Flora, queen of flowers, To bid her lay her kingdom at thy feet, To bring thee bliss, to give thee gladness sweet, To lead thy way through beauty-laden bowers. Not only pansies then would bright thy hours, But violets, too, from many a fair retreat Where modesty and thought in concord meet, To rain their sentiments in gentle showers. The lilies pure would ever seek thy face To gain thy beauty's favor, and to prove Their lives and thine a wondrous garden plot Of living joy, the halo of thy grace. Id crown thee last with roses, rich in love, hen humbly pray to thee: "Forget-me-not." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.