11 APRIL 1981, Page 19

Flowers of Elliott

• Sir: Ebenezer Elliott's love of flowers might allow us to add to Alan Gibson's quotations (28 March) the following lines from the People's Anthem: Flowers of Thy heart, 0 God, are they, • Let them not pass like weeds away, Their heritage a sunless day . .

D.M. Greenhalgh 8 Kippax Avenue, Wells, Somerset