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Apollo, and did not fly from him as Daphne 
had done; but the god proved faithless to 
the daughter of the Ocean, and wooed Leuco- 
thoe, the daughter of King Orchamus. ‘The 
forsaken Clytia, in a fit of jealousy, betrayed 
the love secret of her rival to the king, who, | 
sternly indignant, put his young daughter to | 
death. Apollo was so enraged at Clytia’s 
conduct, that he refused to forgive her; and 
the nymph, overwhelmed with sorrow, sank 
on the earth, and remained for nine days 
and nights with her eyes for ever fixed on 
the sun-chariot of her lover, without taking 
food or sleep. At length the gods had pity 
on her, and, in consideration of her remorse 
and despair, changed her into a Sunflower, 
on which the offended god no longer refused 
to shine. 
And from that time, as all poets know, 
(though botanists, not having the poetic 
second-sight, deny the fact,) Clytia never 
loses sight of her deity, but 
“¢ Turns on her god when he sets, 
The same look she turn’d when he rose.” 

