Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — An Exquisite Flower. [ARTICLE]

An Exquisite Flower.

Both in shape and hne the Bose oi Sharon is an exquisite flower. Its blossoms are bell-shaped, and of ipany mingled hues and dyes. But its history is legendary and romantic in the highest • degree. In the East, throughout Syria, Judea, and Arabia, it is regarded with the profoundest reverence. The leaves that encircle the round blossoms dry and close together when the season of blossoms is over, and the stalk, withering completely away at last from the bush on which it grew, having dried in the shape of a ball, which is carried by the breeze to great distances. In this way it is borne over the wastes and sandy deserts, and at last, touching some moist place, it clings to the soil, where it immediately takes fresh root and springs to life and beauty again. For this Reason the Orientals have adopted it as the emblem of resurrection. We cannot understand what we have never experienced; we need pain, were it only to teach us sympathy.