How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave!

And all my heavenly flowerets for me weep, O'er him who now in death doth sleep; Ah, me, my Tammuz!

[Sub-Footnote ii: See 'Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude', l. 54: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale.

The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.

The orange-trees, covered from trunk to crown with white, ivory-smooth flowerets, seemed like webs of spun glass, the vegetation of one of those fantastic snow-mantled landscapes that quiver sometimes in the glass spheres of paper-weights.

For not to us do these thine arrows seem Pointed with tender flowerets; not to us Doth the pale Moon irradiate the earth With beams of silver fraught with cooling dews; But on our fevered frames the moon-beams fall Like darts of fire, and every flower-tipt shaft Of Káma, as it probes our throbbing hearts, Seems to be barbed with hardest adamant.

But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den.

The lantana, with its yellow and magenta flowerets, umbrella ferns, and aihere, the herbe de vache, and the bohenia, used by the Tahitians for an eye lotion, were all about.