Refrain:
There, naught is heard but Paradise bird,
Harp, dulcimer, lute,
With cymbal, trump and timbral,
And the tender, soothing flute.
Interesting timing. Yesterday I was looking at the common chickweed:
Derivation of the botanical name:
Stellaria, Latin stella, "star,", referring to the star-shaped flowers.
media, in the middle, between; intermediate.
Flowers: 5 white petals, shorter than the sepals and deeply incised nearly to their base, giving the appearance of flowers with 10 narrow petals; 5 sepals about 5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate in shape with obtuse to acute tips
Hebrew Name: כוכבית מצויה
Plant Family: ציפורניים
Paradise bird, from Eden.
chickweed (n.)
late 14c., chekwede, applied to various plants eaten by chickens, from chick + weed (n.). In Old English such plants were cicene mete "chicken food."
weed (n.)
"plant not valued for use or beauty," Old English weod, uueod "grass, herb, weed," from Proto-Germanic *weud- (source also of Old Saxon wiod, East Frisian wiud), of unknown origin.
Everyone's looking up for stars, while this one gets trampled and/or blasted with Round Up.. good luck with that:
Exo 32.13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever:
Talk about imagery. You can't make this stuff up.