Cardinal Flower - The Language of Flowers

This is a beautiful flower. Flowers a rich scarlet.

Distinction.

Heaven grant thee, friend, a high soft star to be,
Calm, still and bright, to trace thy way in heaven,
And shed thy light o'er life's tempestunous sea,
Where human hearts, like fragile barks are driven,
'Mid rocks and hidden shoals;
A soul 'mid glorious souls-
A small, pure star, within the glittering band,
That high above the clouds, undimmed and grand,
In placid beauty, rolls,
To herald on the weary to the land
Where all is rest and peace; to guide the way
To heaven's unclouded day!