AND FLOWERS OF POETRY. 83 
You ’ll speed your conquering way I trow, 
Through hearts, however narrow ; 
Those lips are Cupid’s graceful bow, 
That smile his sunlit arrow; 
f. s. o. 
FELICITY. 
SWEET SOLTAN. 
This sweet-scented species of centaury was introduced into 
England in the reign of Charles I. It is mentioned by Parkin¬ 
son, in 1629 —“ as a kinde of these corne-flowers, I must needs 
adjoyn another stranger of much beauty, and but lately obtained 
from Constantinople, where because, as it is said, that the great 
Turk, as we call him, saw it abroad, liked it, and wore it him¬ 
self, all his vassals had it in great regard, and hath been obtain¬ 
ed from them by some that have sent it into these parts.” And 
he adds, “ the Turks themselves do call it the sultan’s flower, 
and I have done so likewise, that it may be distinguished from 
all the other kindes.” It is also very commonly called Blacka¬ 
moor’s Beauty. We are told that, in the East, it made the 
emblem of supreme happiness. 
The spider’s most attenuated thread 
Is cord, is cable, to man’s tender tie 
On earthly bliss ; — it breaks at every breeze. 
Young. 
There’s a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, 
When two that are linked in one heavenly tie, 
