Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Orchid (Orchis)
In the marsh pink orchid’s faces,
With their coy and dainty graces,
Lure us to their hiding places—
Laugh, O murmuring Spring!
Sarah F. Davis—Summer Song.
Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower
The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres;
Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower
Foredates its hundred years.
Bayard Taylor—Canopus.