Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Bird of Paradise
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur’d them o’er the summer flood; And those that under Araby’s soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon. Moore—Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
