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"Fell Juno, while before the mound 

 The games perform their festal round, 

 Despatches Iris from the sky 



And gives her wings of wind to fly. 



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Adown her bow of myriad dyes, 

 Unseen of all, the maiden hies." 



Virgil: Aeneid (Conington's) V. 



"Like as are reared within a tender cloud 

 Two parallel and self-same colored bows, 

 When Juno to her handmaid gives command." 

 Dante: Paradiso. 



"As large, as bright, as color'd as the bow 

 Of Iris, when unfading it doth show 

 Beyond a silvery shower, was the arch 

 Through which this Paphian army took its march 

 Into the outer courts of Neptune's state." 

 Keats: Endymion. 



"Is it a dream again or is it truth 

 This vision fair of Greece inhabited? 

 A fairer sight than all fair Iris sees 

 Footing her airy arch of colors spun 

 From Ida to Olympus, when she stays 

 To look on Greece and thinks the sight is fair." 

 Bridges: Prometheus. 



The legend runs that under her footsteps on earth rose the 

 flower that bears her name. 



"Iris there with humid bow 

 Waters the odorous banks, that blow 

 Flowers of more mingled hue 

 Than her purfled scarf can shew." 

 Milton: Comus. 



"And still before me in the dusky grass, 

 Iris her many-colored scarf had drawn." 



Shelley: Triumph of Life. 



"There's crimson buds, and white and blue 

 The very rainbow showers 

 Have turned to blossoms where they fell,, 

 And sown the earth with flowers." 



Hood: Song-0 Lady. 



