Lilies and Onions are under One Family

 Lilies and Onions are under One Family*

Dr Abe V Rotor

  

 Spider Lily and Fleur de Liz orange lily

 
Shallot; Yellow Granex onons

Lilies and Onions

All the world in two faces can be glee;
One loves bulbs, the other loves flowers,
And onions and lilies though in one family.
Are raised by different growers.

Lies in one the secret of strength,
The other reverence and beauty;
To one a natural source of health,
The other the symbol of frailty.

Yet Nature keeps balance in duality;
For he who works and he who prays
Are both received in the same dignity
Deserving of the Divine Grace. ~

* Some authorities regard the onions, garlics, leeks and their relatives in a family of their own, the Alliaceae, but others put them in the lily or Liliaceae family.