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sunflower that bus become a symbol of solar g'lory iu 

 Peruvian art ; in modern testheticism it stands for art 

 and taste generally, while on the village signboard it sig- 

 nities that the sun is always shining for people who are 

 thirsty and have money in their pockets. 



Probably neither the botanist nor the archaeologist nor 

 the student of Ovid can tell us what was the Hower to 

 which Cl}'tie was changed when she died of love for 

 glorious Apollo. But of course it was a suntiower, and 



one that 



" Tarns to her god when he sets 

 The same look whieh she turned "when he ruse." 



The reader will easily hnd the story in the fourth book of 

 the " Metamorphoses.^^ But the translation by Sandys 

 may not be at hand ; and as it has a certain i[uaintuesSj an 

 extract may be seasonable here ; — ■ 



" iShe with distracted passion dies away, 

 Detcsteth eomiiany ; all night, all day, 

 Disrohed, with her rutlled hair unbound, 

 And wet with humour, sits npon the ground: 

 For nine long days all sustenance foi'hears : 

 Her hunger cloy'd with dew, her thirst with tears : 

 Nor rose ; hut rivets on the god her eyes. 

 And ever tur-ns her face to him that iiies. 

 At length, to earth her stupid body cleaves : 

 Her wan complexion turns to bloodless lea\-es, 

 Yet .streak'd with red ; her perish'd Umbs begi;t 

 ^i fii>!rri\ rc^cii'f'lhifi iJie pale violet ; 

 Which, with the sun, though rooted fast, doth nioic ; 

 .ind being changed, ehangeth not her lo\"e." 



We seem here to liave thi:' stoiy of A'euus and Adonis 

 modihed, and with a lamer climax; but it brings us to 

 the flower before us, which may be said to " resemble the 

 violet " in its colour, its odour, and its domestic tone of 



