ee THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN 



nor the groves of the Heliades, nor the mast tree 

 with its lofty branches, nor the tender lime tree, 

 nor yet the beech and the virgin laurel, and the 

 brittle hazel, and the oak adapted for making spears, 

 and the fir wdth knots, and the holm bending 

 beneath its acorns, and the genial plane tree, and 

 the parti-coloured maple, and the tine tree with 

 its azure berries. You, too, the ivy tree with your 

 creeping tendrils, and the elms clothed with vines; 

 the ashes too, and the pitch trees, and the bending 

 palms, the reward of the conquerors; the pine with 

 its tufted foliage, and bristling at the top, pleasing 

 to the mother of the gods. 



" Such a grove of trees had the bard attracted 

 round him, and he sat in the midst of an assembly 

 of wild beasts, and a multitude of birds." 



Amphion is one of the most famous of mythical 

 musicians; he was given a lyre by Mercury, who 

 taught him how to play upon it. It is said that 

 when he played on his lyre stones moved of their 

 own accord, and took their places in the wall with 

 which he was fortifying the city. 



" 'Tis said he had a tuneful tongue, 



Such happy intonation, 

 Wherever he sat down and sung 



He left a small plantation; 

 Wherever in a lonely grove 



He set up his forlorn pipes, 

 The gouty oak began to move, 



And flounder into hornpipes. 



" The mountain stirred its bushy crown, 

 And as tradition teaches, 

 Young ashes pirouetted down. 

 Coquetting with young beeches; 



