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changed into a cow by one of her enemies, and 
we were named from her, because we sustained her 
life in that misfortune. 
“ I have cousins too who grow in the palm-groves 
of Africa. The children of that land are not so 
happy as you are, but they love flowers, and wear 
us in garlands round their heads, and when they 
give us to each other they mean to say, 1 1 shall 
love you alwaysfor we are the emblems of con¬ 
stant affection. We grow in Asia, too, in the Holy 
Land where Abraham lived. In Paradise we 
decked the very bower of Eve, your first mother, 
as Crocus has told you. 
“My cousin Hesperus, who lives in England, 
keeps all her sweet fragrance to herself in the day, 
but at evening she sheds it upon the dewy air, and 
the nightingales come and perch upon the bushes 
near her, for they love sweet odors—and they thank 
