On the cold nymph he rain’d a nectar shower. ‘Ah! undeserving thus,’ he said, ‘to die, Yet still in odours thou shalt reach the sky.’ The body soon dissolved, and all around Perfumed with heavenly fragrances the ground. A sacrifice for gods uprose from thence, A sweet delightful tree of frankincense.”
Clytie, being deserted by Apollo, pines away, and is changed into a sunflower, which still turns its head towards the sun, in token of her love.