And yet another as well;'Like are the Orange-hills[404] when Zephyr breathes * Swaying the boughs and spray with airy grace;Her cheeks that glow with lovely light when met * At greeting-tide by cheeks of other face.'
And a fourth as fairly;'And fairest Fawn,we said to him'Portray * This garth and oranges thine eyes survey:'
And he,'Your garden favoureth my face * Who gathereth orange gathereth fire alway.'
In that garden too grew citrons,in colour as virgin gold;hanging down from on high and dangling among the branches,as they were ingots of growing gold;[405] and saith thereof the'namoured poet;'Hast seen a Citron-copse so weighed adown * Thou fearest bending roll their fruit on mould;
And seemed,when Zephyr passed athwart the tree * Its branches hung with bells of purest gold?'
And shaddocks,[406] that among their boughs hung laden as though each were the breast of a gazelle-like maiden,contenting the most longing wight,as saith of them the poet and saith aright;'And Shaddock mid the garden-paths,on bough * Freshest like fairest damsel met my sight;
And to the blowing of the breeze it bent * Like golden ball to bat of chrysolite.'
And the lime sweet of scent,which resembleth a hen's egg,but its yellowness ornamenteth its ripe fruit,and its fragrance hearteneth him who plucketh it,as saith the poet who singeth it;'Seest not the Lemon,when it taketh form,* Catch rays of light and all to gaze constrain;
Like egg of pullet which the huckster's hand * Adorneth dyeing with the saffron-stain?'
Moreover in this garden were all manner of other fruits and sweet-scented herbs and plants and fragrant flowers,such as jessamine and henna and water-lilies[407] and spikenard[408] and roses of every kind and plantain[409]