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ROM first to last the children should be taught that the
object of the flower is to develop seed. They should
look eagerly into the maturing flower for the growing
fruit. Poetry is full of the sadness of the fading
flower, while rightly it should be the gladness of the
flower that fades, because its work is done for the
precious seed at its heart. The whole attention of the
child should be fixed upon the developing fruit instead
of the fading and falling petals.
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"In all places then and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things." —Longfellow. |