"Flower! with a curious eye we scan

Thy leaf, and there discover

How passion triumphed—pain began—

Or in the immortal, or the man,

The hero, or the lover.

"The disk is hurled:—ah! fatal flight!

Low droops that beauteous brow:

But oh! the Delian's pang! his light

Of joy lies quenched in sorrow's night:

The deathless record thou.