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the Hindoos, as the cedar of Lebanon has in ours; and 
consequently we find it blending with their mythology, 
adorning their temples, and perfuming their sacrifices. 
A tree of so much beauty, usefulness, and renown as 
the cedar, must necessarily have acquired much poetic 
homage. Its height, its durability, its far-spreading 
shade, its “ dainty odours,” have each been brought into 
view. 
Homer selects it, on account of the fragrance of its 
wood, as fuel for the cave of Calypso: — 
“ Large was the grot, in which the nymph he found 
(The fair-hair’d nymph, with every beauty crown’d) : 
She sat and sung; the rocks resound her lays : 
The cave was brighten’d with a rising blaze; 
Cedar and frankincense, an od’rous pile, 
Flamed on the hearth, and wide perfumed the isle.” 
Its use in building is adverted to by Virgil:— 
“ Yet Heaven their various plants for use designs ; 
For houses, cedars; and for shipping, pines.” 
Milton describes 
- “ the garden of God with cedars crown’d. 
Above all hills.' 
