LOTUS

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1. Lotos the name: divine, nectareous juice!—HOMER, Odyssey
   

2. They wove the lotus band to deck
   And fan with pensile wreath their neck.—THOMAS MOORE, Odes of Anacreon
   

3. Thro' every hollow cave and alley lone,
   Round and round the spicy downs the yellow
   Lotos-dust is blown.—TENNYSON, The Lotos-Eaters
   

4. In that dark land of mystic dream
   Where dark Osiris sprung,
   It bloomed beside his sacred stream
   While yet the world was young;
   And every secret Nature told,
   Of golden wisdom's power,
   Is nestled still in every fold,
   Within the Lotos flower.—WILLIAM WINTER, A Lotos Flower