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CORN POPPY. 



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That thou no more wilt weigh my eyehds down 

 And steep my senses in forgetfuhiess? 



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O thou dull god, why licst thou with the vile 



In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch? 



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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." 



Sleep relaxes the animal frame, so that it becomes help- 

 less, and the five senses are so dulled that it bears a close 

 resemblance to the insensibility of the dead. Hence Sleep 

 and Death are regarded as twin-brothers. When the hero 

 Sarpedon fell in the plains of Troy, Apollo, at the bidding of 

 Jove, went and forthwith drew the divine Sarpedon from 

 amid the javelins, bore him far away, w^ashed him in the 

 flowing river, and anointed him with ambrosia, and wrapped 

 around him an immortal robe; and anon 



"To two swift-bearers gave him then in charge, 

 To Sleep and Death, twin brothers ; in their arms 

 Ihey bore him safely to Lycia's wide-spread plain." 



Homer {Lord Derby's Trans). 



The species named at the head of this article seems to have 

 been named Rheas with reference to Rhea, or Cybele, wife of 

 Cronos, mother of Zeus, or Jove, and, therefore, "■ mother of 

 the Gods." She was worshipped by the ancients, and repre- 

 sented as wearing a wreath of Poppy-heads. 



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