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    Flora Symbolica: The Text
    Flora Symbolica: The Text
    Flora Symbolica: The Text
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    Flora Symbolica: The Text

    By Austin P. Torney

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    Text-only edition.The poetic language of the flowers—their lore and legends.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin P. Torney
    Release dateNov 21, 2014
    ISBN9781311040275
    Flora Symbolica: The Text
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    Austin P. Torney

    Austin began writing for real around the age of forty, a respite from working as an Information Engineer in the field of Computer Science, doing programming, an art, as it turned out. He calls himself a humanist, and is one who enjoys the liberal arts, utilizing science, for it pervades every discipline. He is currently retired and lives in the mountains of Poughquag, NY, near the Appalachian Trail. He enjoys tennis, writing, fun, humor, thinking, sleeping, poetry, music, dining, travel, romance, reading, swimming, and life.

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      Flora Symbolica - Austin P. Torney

      Flora Symbolica: THE TEXT

      By Austin P. Torney

      Copyright 2014 Austin P. Torney

      Smashwords Edition

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      FLORA SYMBOLICA

      A tale I’ve written, invented, yes, hence

      An attempt to unite the Christian pense

      With the non-belief, in a middle ground,

      Somewhere between mystery and good sense:

      With flora mystical and magical,

      Eden’s botanical garden was blest,

      So Eve, taking more than just the Apple,

      Plucked off the loveliest of the best.

      Thus it’s to Eve that we must give our thanks,

      For Earth’s variety of fruits and plants,

      For when she was out of Paradise thrown,

      She stole all the flowers we’ve ever known.

      Therewith, through sensuous beauty and grace,

      Eve with Adam brought forth the human race,

      But our world would never have come to be,

      Had not God allowed them His mystery.

      When they were banished from His bosom,

      Eve saw more than just the Apple Blossom,

      And took, on her way through Eden’s bowers,

      Many wondrous plants and fruitful flowers.

      Mighty God, upon seeing this great theft,

      At first was angered, but soon smiled and wept,

      For human nature was made

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