belie when pet ries si aaa aang boy; 
ood no longer; but a flow’r “sa blown, 
A lily’s po it took ; its purple 
ll that made a di 
Tor stopp’d he here ; hess god upon its ied es, 
f his sorrow weaves; 
And to this “hour _ 2 mournful pore. wears 
Ai, Ai, inscrib’d 
nother fabulous account of the eget in rs san it “grated 
from the blood of Ajax Telamonius, who self in 
, when the arms of Achilles were nrathna 3 iby ihe ashe 
to his rival, Ulysses. And it is described by Ovid, as a purple 
flower in this instance, also. 
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WPab eb 
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Ozill’s Ovid. 
The fruitful b prod *d a flower afer grew 
n stem, and of a purple hue 
Like his, whom unaware, Apollo slew: 
ribed in both, the aes were the same, 
: [See Death of Ajaz.] 
As poets feign’d—from Ajax oe bloo 
Arose, with grief inscrib’d, a mournful flow 
"Y. oung’s IV ight Thoughts. 
O tell in what delightful region springs 
The flow’r that bears inscrib’d the age of kings.t 
irgil’s Eclogues. 
ie ~~ vies of the ancients, which we cannot ep to 
for i Ca~ 
tion ee the name in question to our mem » garden hy 
ies of woke’ 
lily—quoting Martyn n, as Se Segr ec Paes 
ked with many spots of a darker r than the aiwee 
tself; which often run evi Ss ie rm the letters 4i— 
as the ancient hyacinth i is repre a 
i th 1 Martagon ; : 
all ee I can find said of it, is, ‘that Gera ard, who wrote in 1595, 
aki f brought t “many daies iourneis beyond 
Csepeaiteaiiad which he calls Lilium Bizantinum, ‘the red 
lilie of Constantinople,” tells us, ther smaller 
kinds of wing in his garden, which, at that tim = 
name 0 rag: we oa to have been given 
an insipid muci a ters taste, si e tuberous-rooted 
Orchis, a Ma wn esculent, greatly esteemed in Turkey, 
Persia, aii, 
In the fara» works of Sir Tho: gor as Browne we 
tion of the Martagon. In quoting from Scripture, - "The lilies 
nor 
drop forth Myrrh, > he observes “ne ither the proper lil 
th 
_ The Flora Historica Temarks that “some authors suppose 
Fans V0? nee 
metaphorical sense: a e latitude may be a m NS 
Yet ‘is ry gave; as oft as wintry rains out from the rosci “sing Aten abeare in the flowers of ib 
oo past, and yernal lai Martagon, and inverted lilies—and ’tis like the standing sweet- { 
m the green turf, a purple flow’r your dew on t eyes of the cro how common \ 
ied rage — fr. ees wees th ae on skies. among us. 
The Martagon, is elsewhere represented as a species of lily 
Thy: name my lyre shall ak my verse shall tell; red or yellow, with dark spots, or blotched, Flowers gc 
And to a flow’r transform’d wibe ard of yet. or hanging downwards. is agrees with the Hyacinth, whose 
eaves, my cries thou shalt “repeat. ll flowers of the form of the lily, and only inferior in size, 
are snependeg by a short peste or flo lower stalk 
lily 
Now tell your story, Ayacinth ; and sits 
Ai, Ai, the more amidst arte ty 
ndar of Mabie: G. of F. 
or ee flower whose lips —— 
Wo Garland of Flora. 
amus,* reverend sire, went — slow, 
e 
inscribed with w 
da 
that sanguine flower, in 
Mitton’s ‘Lycides. 
Like tot 
The Martagon, of classic honors v: path 
Bears on his eat the gory spotted s 
Still darkly graved on each returning er 
The moans of Phoebus, and the hero’s doom, 
Dr. Evans 
ean 
this is ev. idently a mistak en opinion, as the azure color 
ould dec. ide— and * blue martagon will by. a0 sought in in 
—s 
Plin > 
the scent of the 
All night and never lifts an eye all day. Hurdis. 
= languid Ayacinth Me wears 
His bitter sorrow painted on his bosom. G. of Flora. 
And for their grateful perfume, we have— 
There were 
Hyacinths, with their graceful bells, 
Where the spirit of odor dwells. Landon, G. F 
Breathe o’er the hyacinth-bells 
Where, every i. E. In 
The sad blue, or purple color, is noticed by Percival. 
“ A hyacinth lifted its purple bell 
From the slender leaves around it; 
It ; apy eer 
* Ajax. 
+From Pitt's Virgil “of Kings—The flower h 
which, as it is said to ibe from the blood of Ajaz, was marked A. I.” 
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The drooping pen on 1s peat of the hyacinth is alluded 
to in the following lines 
pe flowe’ er, which agroca pa pe arith 
ne Upon whole, it 
The melancholy hyacinth, oe weeps 
nd 
he ies p blue tincture that robed it, seem’d, 
sorrow, 
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