And there are wines, and opiums, and haschish; and there are oils, and spices, fruits and bivalves, and soft-breathing Cyclades, and scarlet luxurious Orients.

" "Then through thy fields shall scarlet rep

Then through thy fields shall scarlet reptiles stray, And rapine and pollution mark their way.

One has heard often enough of bison-hunting in Himalayan forests among Deodaras one hundred and fifty feet high, and scarlet Rhododendrons thirty feet high, growing in fifteen or twenty feet of leaf-and-timber mould.

After which she went downstairs and picked golden glow for the living-room vases and scarlet salvia for the bowl in the dining-room.

[Sidenote: Woollen cloth and scarlets solde in Pegu.]

* * This lady-fly I take from off the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass: 'Fly, lady-bird, north, south, or east, or west!