illis munus erat decussa Cydonia ramo, et dare puniceis plena canistra rubis, nunc violas tondere manu, nunc mixta referre lilia vimineos lucida per calathos, et portare suis vestitas frondibus uvas aut variam plumae versicoloris avem.
For them it was a present to give quinces shaken from the bough, to bring panniers laden with crimson bramble-berries, now to pick a handful of violets, now to bring a mixed bouquet of lilies shining through their wicker baskets, and to carry grapes clothed in their own leaves and some speckled bird of rainbow plumage.
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