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DO YOU KNOW 



IIIAT TIIK 



SONNET— THE LOTUS. 

 Love came to Flora asking for a flower 



That would of flowers be uurUsputed queen ; 



The lily ami the rose long, long had been 

 Rivals for that high honor. Bards of power 

 Had sung their claims. "The rose can never tower 



Like the pale lily, with her Juno mien." 



•'But is the lily lovelier ?" Thus, between 

 Flower factions rang the strife in Psyche's bower. 

 " Give me a flower delicious as the rose, 



And stately as the lily in her pride " 



"But of what color?" "Rose-red'' Love first chose, 



Then praye<l : "No, lily-white, or both provide." 



And Flora gave the lotus. " rose-red " dyed 

 And "lily-white," the quccnlicst flower that blows. 

 — From " CV/i^to,)/," January, ISSU, 



Sacrefl Lotus i'Mia^CliM 



Grown also in Egypt in most ancient times, 

 where its seeds were used by the people for 

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 its American relative 



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