82 FABLES OF FLORA 
Queen of the Meadow and Crown Imperial. 
The Queen of the Meadow is a variety of 
the Spiraea. It is sometimes called Meadow 
Sweet. 
• There the flowering Rush you meet, 
And the plumy Meadow Sweet.’ 
Mart Howitt. 
<Along the thick hedge-side we greet 
Tall purple Vetch and Meadow Sweet. 
- Ibid. 
The Crown Imperial, or Frittillaria, is the 
emblem of pride. 
• Then heed ye not the dazzling gem 
That gleams In Frittillaria’s diadem.’ 
Evans. 
FABLE XXIV. 
The Queen of the Meadow and the Crown 
Imperial. 
From Bactria’s vales, where beauty blows 
Luxuriant in the genial ray, 
Where flowers a bolder gem disclose, 
And deeper drink the golden day j 
