_"One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine."_--Longfellow, in his exquisite
little poem on "Flowers," says:
"Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers so blue and golden,
Stars that in earth's firmament do shine."
To whom does he allude as dwelling "on the castled Rhine?" Cowley says:
"Upon the _flowers_ of Heaven we gaze;
The _stars_ of earth no wonder in us raise."
And Washington Irving gives an Arabian inscription from one of the
gardens of the Alhambra, which commences with a somewhat similar
thought:
"How beauteous is this garden, where the flowers of the earth vie
with the stars of Heaven!"