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I have already stated to you that if any definite flower is meant by these triple groups of leaves, which take their authoritatively typical form in the crowns of the Cretan and Laciuian Hera, it is not the violet, but the purple iris; or sometimes, as in Pindar's description of the birth of Ismus, the yellow water-flag, which you know so well in spring, by the banks of your Oxford streams.
But the Celtic melancholy is struggling, fierce, passionate; to catch its note, listen to Llywarch Hen in old age, addressing his crutch: "O my crutch! is it not autumn, when the fern is red, the water-flag yellow? Have I not hated that which I love? O my crutch! is it not winter-time now, when men talk together after that they have drunken? Is not the side of my bed left desolate?
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