Lemon. 
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ordered that the next day one of them should eat citron, and 
the other not. He who had not tasted the citron died presently 
after he was bitten ; the other remained unhurt. 
I he blossoms of the lemon are deemed typical of love s 
fidelity. 
In Tennyson’s “ Recollections of the Arabian Nights ” is the 
following picture of an enchanted and enchanting lemon-grove: 
“Far off, and where the lemon-grove 
In closest coverture upsprung, 
The living airs of middle night 
Died round the bulbul as he sung; 
Not he, but something which possess’d 
The darkness of the world, delight, 
Life, anguish, death, immortal love, 
Ceasing not, mingled, unrepress’d, 
Apart from place, withholding time, 
But flattering the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid.” 
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