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But more learned sense unlocked you, loosed the sheath and let expand Bud to bell and out-spread flower-shape at the least warm touch of hand Maybe throb of heart, beneath which, quickening farther than it knew, Treasure oft was disembosomed, scent all strange and unguessed hue. Disembosomed, re-embosomed, must one memory suffice, Prove I knew an Alpine rose which all beside named Edelweiss?
If we apply this to literature, it is my belief that the love of human beings for the stanza and the rhyme is probably an elementary thing, like the love of the crystal and the flower-shape, and that it is the love not so much of the beautiful as of the kind of effect that the observer could himself produce.
In these and in other examples unnumbered, culminating in the marvellous orchids and their ministers, there has come about the closest adaptation of flower-shape to insect-form, the one now clearly the counterpart of the other. We must not forget that the hospitality of a flower is after all the hospitality of an inn-keeper who earns and requires payment.
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