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Tily, ImperlaL —/Da^ 30tb— Majesty. 
The lily’s height bespoke command, 
A fair imperial flower ; 
She seemed designed for Flora’s hand, 
The sceptre of her power. 
Ccnvper. 
Lilies, White. — 3l8t — Purity, Sweetness. 
\Ve are lilies fair. 
The flower of virgin light. 
Leigh Hunt. 
— 3une l3t — 
The lily is all in white like a saint. 
Hood. 
— 2nb — 
Nature held us forth, and said, 
Lo ! my thoughts of white. 
Leigh Hunt, 
— 3rb — 
Could you see around us 
The enamoured air. 
You would see it pale with bliss 
To hold a thing so fair. 
Leigh Hunt. 
— 4tb — 
And the wand-like lily; which lifted up. 
As a maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup. 
Till the fiei-y star, which is its eye. 
Gazed through the clear dew on the tender sky. 
Y Shelley. \ ^ 
