The Flower That Shattered The Stone Lyrics

Lyric discussion by margaretbo 

Cover art for The Flower That Shattered The Stone lyrics by John Denver

This does not help at all! I wanted to kow if maybe there was a story, a fable or such, that would offer an explanation for the line that was used in the song, 'Like the flower that shattered the stone'. Or were they just all high at the time and it sounded good and rhymed, so that was it?