Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
--_Gray_.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of
their maps parts of the world which they do not
know about, adding notes in the margin to the
effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy
deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable
bogs.
--_Plutarch_.