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Excerpt from Our Birthday Bouquet: Culled From the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets
The compiler of the present work has long desired to present to Catholic readers a birthday bouquet sufficiently fair and odoriferous to be worthy their acceptance. Her labor to this end, in fields so vast and prolific, is at last, she is happy to say, conscien tiously accomplished. To the choicest flowers from the shrines of the servants of God she has united the purest and most fragrant blossoms (exotic and native) from the haunts of the children of song. The golden chain of our Lady's feasts, interlaced with the Slender ribbon of a daily Christian practice, binds the blooming mass together. The culler of these immortal/es therefore cherishes the hope that her bouquet may prove a blessed birthday-gift to many a gentle reader, and may long diffuse over Name-day and F�te-day its mingled Odors of sanctity and sweetness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
