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FLORAL RECORDS. 9 
‘Tis sung in ancient minstrelsy, 
That Phoebus wont to wear 
The leaves of any pleasant tree 
Around his golden hair, 
Till Daphne, desperate with pursuit 
Of his imperious love, 
At her own prayer transformed, took root, 
A laurel in the grove. 
‘Then did the Penitent adorn 
His brow with laurel green, 
And ’mid his bright locks, never shorn, 
No meaner leaf was seen ; 
And poets sage, through every age, 
About their temples wound 
The bay; and conquerors thanked the gods 
With laurel chaplets crown’d. 
‘‘Into the mists of fabling Time 
So far runs back the praise 
Of Beauty, that disdains to climb 
Along forbidden ways ; 
That scorns Temptation ; Power defies, 
Where mutual love is not; 
And to the tomb for rescue flies, 
When life would be a blot.” 
The SUNFLOWER was supposed to be an- 
other of the unhappy nymphs who exchanged 
their immortality for a flower life. Clytia or 
Clytie, a sea-nymph, was also beloved by 

