124 DROPS FROM FLORA’S CCP. 
and Vertumnus poured his choicest perfumes over 
the plant. When the metamorphosis was com¬ 
plete, Pomona strewed her fruit over the young 
branches, which were then crowned by Flora with 
a diadem, that had been purposely prepared by the 
celestials, to distinguish this queen of flowers.’ 
ANACREON. 
With nectar drops a ruby tide, 
The sweetly orient buds they dyed, 
And bade them bloom; the flowers divine, 
On him who sheds the teeming vine. 
Rose! thou art the sweetest flower 
That ever drank the amber shower 1 
Rose! thou art the fondest child 
Of dimpled Spring! the wood-nymph wild. 
