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“ The Lily of the Yale, of flowers the queen, 
Puts on the robe she neither sew’d nor spun.” 
It has been thought that the “ Amaryllis lutea” 
whose golden blossoms deck the pastures of Judea, is 
the lily mentioned in the New Testament. 
“ What pageant of tliis lower scene 
Such rich apparel wears; 
Not Solomon, not Sheba’s queen, 
A bravery like theirs.” 
Some hâve imagined the white Lily of our gardens, 
“ that fair impérial flower, ” was there intended, and 
one of our poets thus mentions it: — 
“ The Lily he arrays in spotless white, 
Rich in its mantle of inwoven light ; 
Go, Solomon, and cast thy gems aside, 
Nor glory in thy poverty of pride.” 
But neither can she any more than the “ lesser 
Lilies” lay claim to the distinction, seeing they are 
neither of them natives of the Holy Land. The Lily 
of the Valley has no botanical claim to the title of 
Lily, but the extreme purity of her blossoms has won 
her admission into that fair family. It may be here 
