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SYLVAN SKETCHES. 



Of flowers, that with one scarlet gleam 

 Cover a hundred leagues, and seem 

 To set the hills on fire." 



Vol.i. p. 151. 



Tighe, in his poem entitled the Rose, exalting 

 beauty of that floral sovereign, says 



*' Less prized, Gardenia drops her lucid bells. 

 And rich magnolias close their purple robes." 



