...is Citiauiiu, or Delight of the Waters. This circumstance is noticed by MOORE, in his Lalla Rookh. " Those virgin Lilies all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they might rise more fresh and bright Y\ hen their beloved sun's awake." Sir JE SMITH observes, that the...

...Lotus, and is said to sink quite below the water in the evening and night. Thus Moore says of it : " Those virgin lilies all the night, Bathing their beauties...may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun 's awake." In Egypt it abounds on the streams, and the Egyptians represent the dawn of day by a...

...close about four o'clock in the afternoon. " Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their heautics in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their heloved sun's awake." This remarkable fact in the economy of Nymphcea alba is observed also in most,...

...leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds J ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake ; — * " The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves." — Smnini. f Savary mentions the...

...leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken bedsJ ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake ; — * " The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves." — Sonnini. •f- Savary mentions...

...the largest, Babylon has in all subsequent ages enjoyed the greatest celebrity. BALBEC. Those ruined shrines and towers, that seem The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loveliness Naught but the lapwing's cry is heard ; Naught seen but (when the shadows, flitting Fast...

...brightness of a fine day to rise a few inches above the surface, and unfold their beautiful petals. ' Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright When their beloved Sun's awake. The root of the water-lily is tuberous, sending down a number of long stout fibres. The leaves are...

...whose head languidly reclines, like that of a handsome woman overcome with sleep." — Лаfarit c Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...beloved Sun's awake ; — Those ruin'd shrines and tow'rs that seem The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loneliness Nought but the lapwing's...

...its petals, and after closing them, it either reclines on, or sinks below the surface of the water. " Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh, more bright, When their beloved sun's awake." MOORE. In Egypt this flower was dedicated to the moon,...

...;:l! Intitulai'? rei'lnfi, like tjlUt Of >un uvcrcutne н-ittí »It-tp. " — IJefird el liadatl. ether, Pve seen around me fall, w«*.T^ Breather; I fee) fair}' loneliness Naught but the lapwing's cry is heard, Naught seen but (when the shadows, flitting...