...crown'd heads, •Labe youthful maids, •»•hen sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake j — • Those ruin'd shrines and fimers that seem The relics of a splendid drcnm; Amid whose fairy...

...crown'd licads, Iahe youthful niaiils, лх lii-n sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's avrakc; — Those rnin'd shrines and towers that seem The relics of a splendid drenm ; Amid whose fairy...

...leaf-crowned heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; — Those virgin Lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...fresh and bright, When their beloved sun's awake. THE WATER-LILIES; A VOYAGERS DREAM OF LAND. THERE'S a spring in the woods by my sunny bome, Afar from...

...leaf-crown'd heads, •Like youthful maids, when sleep, descending, Warns them to their silken beds ;'— Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun 's awake ; — Those ruin'd shrines and towers that seem The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid...

...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...

...Bathing their beauties in the hike, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun 'a awake; — Those ruin'd shrines and towers that seem...lapwing's cry is heard, Nought seen but (when the shadows, flitting Fast from the moon, unsheath its gleam) Some purple-wing'd Sultana6 sitting Upon л column,...

...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...

...at their pickets seemed to AN INTERRUPTION. 37 feel the sweet and silent influence of the hour — " Amid whose fairy loneliness Nought but the Lapwing's...is heard, , • Nought seen, but (when the shadows, flitting Fast from the moon, unsheath its gleam) Some purple-wing'd Sultana sitting Upon a column-motionless,...

...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 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...