"Like roses that in deserts bloom and die."
Mitford cites Chamberlayne, _Pharonida_, ii. 4:
"Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent
Of odours in unhaunted deserts;"
and Young, _Univ. Pass._ sat. v.:
"In distant wilds, by human eyes unseen,
She rears her flowers, and spreads her velvet green;
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace,
And waste their music on the savage race;"
and Philip, _Thule_:
"Like woodland flowers, which paint the desert glades,
And waste their sweets in unfrequented shades."