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Roscoe, William: The Camellia - ZaunköniG - 31.07.2007 William Roscoe 1753 - 1831 Großbritannien The Camellia At Venus wandered 'midst the Idalian bower, And marked the loves and graces round her play; She plucked a musk-rose from its dew-bent spray, "And this," she cried, "shall be my favorite flower; For o'er its crimson leaflets I will shower Dissolving sweets to steal the soul away; That Dian's self shall own their sovereign sway, And feel the influence of my mightier power." Then spoke fair Cynthia, as severe she smiled, - "Be others by thy amorous arts beguiled, Ne'er shall thy dangerous gifts these brows adorn: To me more dear than all their rich perfume The chaste camellia's pure and spotless bloom, That boasts no fragance, and conceals no thorn." - |