"...these flowers are sacred..."

taken from a poem by Saint Ephrem the Syrian entitled "Joy at the Resurrection"

v. 6
Who has ever beheld blossoms gathered from the Scriptures, as though it were from the hills?
With them have chaste women filled the spacious bosom of the mind.
The sound of songs, like a servant, has scattered blossoms all over the crowds:
these flowers are sacred, catch them with your senses...