...were in especial request for this service, and lilies also : — Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mixed with the purple roses of the spring ;...children owe, This unavailing gift at least I may bestow. Drjden, JEa.f\.883. Other plants, however, were set apart as having a special fitness for this purpose....

...lilies bring, Mix'd with the purple roses of the spring, Let me with fun'ral flowers his body strew, This gift which parents to their children owe, This unavailing gift, at least I may bestow. — Virgil. In Wales, this custom of strewing the graves, aa well as filling the bed, the coffin, and...

...Roses were in especial request *br this service, and lilies also:— Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring. Mixed with the purple roses of the spring;...me with funeral flowers his body strow^ This gift winch parents to their children owe. This unavailing gift at least I may bestow. Dryden, JEn. vi. 883....

...canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mix'd with the purple roses of the spring : Let me with fun'ral flow'rs his body strow, This gift, which parents to their...children owe, This unavailing gift, at least I may bestow !" Thus having said, he led the hero round The confines of the blest Elysian ground ; Which when Anchises...

...canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mix'd with the purple roses of the spring : Let me with fun'ral flowers his body strow; This gift which parents to their children owe." Жп. vi. 884. What, also, was the inscription on their tomhs but a direct and literal prayer ? s....

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...to bestrewing the funeral pile of Marcellus with flowers : — " Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mixed with the purple roses of the spring : Let me with fun'ral flowers his body strow ; This gift which parents to their children owe, This unavailing gift,...

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...Roses were in especial request for this service, and lilies also : Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring. Mixed with the purple roses of the spring ;...This unavailing gift at least I may bestow. Dryden, JEn. vi. 883. Other plants, however, were set apart as having a special fitness for this purpose. The...