SUNFLOWER. 
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notion that this flower regularly turns to the 
sun : 
But one; the lofty follower of the sun, 
Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, 
Drooping all night, and, when he warm returns, 
Points her enamour’d bosom to his ray. 
Thomson. 
Moore,, in his Irish Melodies, introduces the 
same notion: 
As the sunflower turns to her god, when he sets, 
The same look which she turn’d when he rose. 
Darwin also says of the Sunflower that it 
Climbs the upland lawn, 
And bows in homage to the rising dawn, 
Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, 
And watches, as it moves, the orb of day. 
Uplift, proud Sunflower, to thy favourite orb, 
That disk whereon his brightness seems to dwell, 
And, as thou seem’st his radiance to absorb, 
Proclaim thyself the garden’s sentinel. 
Barton. 
This notion is, no doubt, derived from the 
classic legend of the nymph Clytia, who was 
beloved by Helios. When, however, he trans- 
