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The Floral King. II
tears at their loveliness until their manifold colours
iblended shimmering before his eyes, and with a.
smile, reciprocal of their love, he fell asleep.
: The fragrance of the hill-side flowers brought
to his mind’s eye a beautiful vision in his lulled
sleep—a glorious dream, the embryo-conception of
that thought which in after years was begotten,
and with the flash of genius burst upon the learned.
world to revolutionize botany with the demonstra-
tion of the “sexual system” of plants.
In his sleep he was conscious of lying on a
sunny hill surrounded by thousands of wild and
redolent flowers, but he saw how every flower
liberated itself from its stem, and that the petals
took the shape of wings, and in the endless chain
that moved around him in airy motion, as in a
~ graceful dance, trembling with delight, he plainly
discerned alternate male and female features gaze
lovingly at him from out every chalice, and they
sang to him a song of exultation, praising the love
of the Creator; they spread their fragrance as
incense in token of holy adoration, and their balmy
breath whispered to the sleeper that in return for
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