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«Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;»
«I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,»
«Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.»
«His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.»
«Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? / And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? / If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? / Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.»
«I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lilies
«Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these»
Author: Bible | Keywords: arrayed, arraying, lilies, Solomon, spin, toil
«And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.»
«But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.»
«For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.»

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