POETRY OF FLOWERS. 12" 
the nectareous glands of which he licks with 
his tongue; he squeezes into them his little 
body, which looks in these flowers like an eme¬ 
rald set in coral, and sometimes gets so far that 
he may be caught in this situation. 
In the Orient, jasmine is deemed emblematic 
of the sweets of friendship. It is a very favor¬ 
ite flower with the Hindoo ladies, who perfume 
their apartments and their hair with the blos¬ 
soms of the large flowering kind, known as the 
champaca. Sir William Jones says the Brah¬ 
mins of this province insist that the blue cham- 
pac flowers only in Paradise ; and in allusion 
to this flower Moore says : 
“ A tear-drop glistened 
Within his eyelids, like the spray 
Prom Eden’s fountain, when it lies 
On the blue flower which Brahmins say, 
Blooms nowhere but in paradise.” 
The golden-colored chainpac Moore, in his 
“Lalla Rookh,” thus sweetly introduces: 
“ The maid of India, blest again to hold 
In her full lap the champac’s leaves of gold, 
Thinks of the time when, by the Ganges’ flood, 
Her little playmates scattered many a bud 
Upon her long black hair, with glassy gleam 
Just dripping from the consecrated stream.” 
