Orchids

 

 

Flowers

A Poem

 by: Albert Laighton (1829-1887)

They are autographs of angels, penned

In Nature's green-leaved book, in blended tints,

Borrowed from rainbows and the sunset skies,

And written everywhere--on plain and hill,

In lonely dells, 'mid crowded haunts of men;

 

 

 

 

On the broad prairies, where no eye save God's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 May read their silent, sacred mysteries.

 

 

 

Thank God for flowers! they gladden human hearts;

 

 

 

 

 

Seraphic breathings part their fragrant lips

With whisperings of Heaven.

 

 

 All photos of orchids taken in Hawaii.