FLORA DOMESTICA. 



eye upon their beauty. Crabbe speaks of their mischievous 

 effects : 



' ( There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil ; 

 There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; 

 Hardy, and high above the slender sheaf, 

 The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf." 



C&ABBE'S VILLAGE. 



Virgil has a fine comparison, which was copied by 

 Ariosto, of a beautiful youth dying, to a Poppy surcharged 

 with rain : 



' Bed viribus ensis adactus 



Transadigit costas, et Candida pectora rumpit r 

 Volvitur Euryalus leto, pulchrosque per artus 

 It cruor, inque humeros cervix collapsa recumbit. 

 Purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratro 

 Languescit raoriens ; lassove papavera collo 

 Demisere caput, pluvia cum forte gravantur." 



VIKGIL, Book IX. 



" But the sword, strongly driven, pierces through his side, and rends 

 his white bosom. Euryalus falls to the earth. The blood streams 

 over his 'beauteous limbs, and his head droops upon his shoulder. Like 

 flower cut down by the plough, he languishes in death ; or as 

 its weary neck bowe down its head, when overcharged with 

 rain." 



" Come purpurea fior languendo more, 

 Che r vomere al passar tagliato lassa, 

 O come carco di superchio umore 

 fl papaver nell' orto il capo abbassa ; 

 Cosi, o^ui della faccia ogni colore 

 Cadendo, Dardinel di vita passa ; 

 Passa di vita, e fa passar con lu'i 

 L* ttrdire, e la virtA di tutti i sui." 



, Canto 1$, Stanza 153. 



"Like the red flower which in its languor lies, 

 Left by the plough-share not to rise again; 

 Or as -the poppy bows its head, and dies 

 Beneath the silver burthen of the rain ; 

 So wWh "his colour fled, and closing eyes, 

 iDardmeTs sotfl is gone ; fee clasps the plain : 



