132 THE MUSIC OF WILD FLOWERS 



Arnold, in his beautiful commemoration of Arthur 

 Hugh Clough : 



" I know what white, what purple fritillaries, 

 The grassy harvest of the river-fields 

 Above by Eynsham, down by Sandford, yields." 



In both localities the white and the purple varieties are 

 as plentiful now as when the poet wrote Thyrsis. 



