VIOLET. 447 



" Yet, though thus respected, 

 By and bye 

 Ye do lie, 

 Poor girls, neglected." 



HERRICK. 



The beautiful drooping of this lovely flower gives occasion 

 to W. Browne to represent it as mourning the death of one 

 of his friends, in the same way as Milton brings in the 

 daffodil, &c. in his Lycidas : 



" Behold our flowrie beds ; 

 Their beauties fade, and violets 

 For sorrow hang their heads." 



" The violet in her greenwood bower, 



Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, 

 May boast itself the fairest flower 

 In glen, or copse, or forest dingle. 



" Though fair her gems of azure hue 



Beneath the dew-drops' weight reclining, 

 I've seen an eye of lovelier blue 



More sweet through watery lustre shining. 



" The summer sun that dew shall dry, 



Ere yet the day be past its morrow ; 

 Nor longer in my false love's eye 



Remain'd the tear of parting sorrow." 



SIR W. SCOTT. 



Mr. Moore, in his notes to Lalla Rookh, quotes some 

 passages to inform us that the Sweet Violet is one of the 

 plants most esteemed in the East, particularly for its use 

 in sherbet ; which they make with violet sugar. " The 

 sherbet they most esteem, and which is drank by the 

 grand signer himself, is made of violets and sugar.- 

 TAVERNIER." 



Mr. H. Smith, in his Amarynthus, speaks of this flower 

 as being of short duration. 



" the trembling violet, which eyes 



The sun but once, and unrepining dies." 



