Lily
Lilies often appear when the dreamer senses something beautiful yet fleeting — a relationship, a phase of life, or even health itself holding both grace and fragility. Perhaps the dream asks: what in your waking life feels precious precisely because it cannot last forever?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lily, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a lily, denotes much chastisement through illness and death. To see lilies growing with their rich foliage, denotes early marriage to the young and subsequent separation through death.
To see little children among the flowers, indicates sickness and fragile constitutions to these little ones.
For a young woman to dream of admiring, or gathering, lilies, denotes much sadness coupled with joy, as the one she loves will have great physical suffering, if not an early dissolution. If she sees them withered, sorrow is even nearer than she could have suspected.
To dream that you breathe the fragrance of lilies, denotes that sorrow will purify and enhance your mental qualities.