PUBLISHER AND POET JAMES TERRY WHITE (1845-1920), WHICH READS IN PART

If thou of fortune be bereft And in thy store there be but left Two loaves, sell one and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul." (Dole means a small portion. Hyacinths are plants having fragrant clusters of bell-shaped flowers in shades of white, yellow, red, blue and purple, native to the Mediterranean area and South Africa.) The poem is an adaptation of an