Bearing its own appropriate sweets:—these doves,

Wheeling in circles round, let fall upon us

A shower of sweet perfumery, drenching, bathing

Both clothes and furniture—and lordlings all—

I deprecate your envy, when I add,

That on myself fell floods of violet odours .—Mitchell.


Simonides. (Book xv. § 50, p. 1110.)

Oh! Health, it is the choicest boon Heaven can send us,

And Beauty's arms, bright and keen, deck and defend us;