Gateway to the Classics: Wild-Flower Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
 
Wild-Flower Study by  Anna Botsford Comstock

Teach the Use of the Flower

dropcap image 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.


"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.


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