June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children’s hands with posies. – Sara Coleridge The Garden Year
My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee. – The Bible Song of Solomon 2:16-17
Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies. – The Bible Song of Solomon 4:5
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. – The Bible Matthew 6:28-29
