TB.E LILIES 
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CHAPTER XXVIL 
Lilies^ — ''Lily of the Field ” — Liliaceous Plants of Eg^ui- 
noctial Countries — Lily of the Y alley — Water-lily — 
Eastern Lotus — Garden Lily — Orange Lily — Turk' scap 
Lily — Kamschatka Lily — Its Use as Food — Mode of 
collecting it. 
Queen lilies, and ye painted populace 
That dwell in fields, and lead ambrosial lives, 
In morn and evening dews your beauties bathe, 
And drink the sun, which gives your cheeks to glow, 
A-.d outblush, mine excepted, every fair; 
Ye gladlier grew, ambitious of her hand 
Which often cropt your odours, incense meet 
To thought so pure ! Ye lovely fugitives. 
Coeval race with man, for man ye smile ; 
Why not smile at him too? Ye share indeed 
His sudden pass, but not his constant pain ! 
— Young. 
Lilies, lilies of the field! Shall we hear their names 
uttered without being carried back in thought to the 
group once assembled on the plains of Judea? There the 
Saviour of the world, foreseeing the ills which on a future 
day would befall those who were now listening to his 
address, stored their minds with consolations adapted to 
their common sorrows ; and pointing to some of the lovely 
blossoms which sprang up before them, and directing their 
attention to a glory with which the splendour of Solomon 
could not compare, He bade them take no thought for 
the morrow, since He who thus arrayed the lilies should 
much rather protect and clothe them. 
Surely when, in after-days of sorrow, these lonely men 
again traversed these plains, as, destitute of food, and 
