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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.