If ladies wish to get into the very best company possible, we do not
know of any pleasanter way than is detailed in this beautiful scrap
from a German poet:
A flower do but place near thy window glass,
And through it no image of evil shall pass.
Abroad must thou go? on thy white bosom wear
A nosegay, and doubt not an angel is there;
Forget not to water at break of the day
The lilies, and thou shalt be fairer than they;
Place a rose near thy bed nightly sentry to keep,
And angels shall rock thee on roses to sleep.
And pray what will happen if a _gentleman_ does all this? For one, we
have a personal curiosity to know; for we do all these things and a
good many more. If any other angels have hovered about us than angelic
flowers, we make an especial request to them not, hereafter, to be so
shy about it. Our natural eye would delight to behold in veritable
substance all the flower-spirits which our ideality spies lurking in
our garden-blossoms.