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Pherecrates also, or whoever the poet was who wrote the play of the Persians, mentions some flowers as fit for garlands, and says— O you who sigh like mallows soft, Whose breath like hyacinths smells, Who like the melilotus speak, And smile as doth the rose, Whose kisses are as marjoram sweet, Whose action crisp as parsley, Whose gait like cosmosandalum. Pour rosy wine, and with loud voice Raise the glad pæan's song, As laws of God and man enjoin On holy festival. And the author of the Miners, whoever he was, (and that poem is attributed to the same Pherecrates,) says— Treading on soft aspalathi Beneath the shady trees, In lotus-bearing meadows green, And on the dewy cypirus; And on the fresh anthryscum, and The modest tender violet, And green trefoil. . .
