Crossword-Solution: RHOECUS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

How, then, could you expect flowers and fruit? You have planted the tree with a greedy and suspicious heart; how, then, could you expect to reap a rich and generous harvest?” THE DRYAD OF THE OLD OAK BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (ADAPTED) In olden times there was a youth named Rhoecus.

Full of pity for so fair a tree, Rhoecus carefully propped up its trunk, and as he did so he heard a soft voice murmur:-- “Rhoecus!” It sounded like the gentle sighing of the wind through the leaves; and while Rhoecus paused bewildered to listen, again he heard the murmur like a soft breeze:-- “Rhoecus!” And there stood before him, in the green glooms of the shadowy oak, a wonderful maiden.

Now, ask me what thou wilt that I can give, and it shall be thine.” “Beauteous nymph,” answered Rhoecus, with a flutter at the heart, “surely nothing will satisfy the craving of my soul save to be with thee forever.

Give to me thy love!” “I give it, Rhoecus,” answered she with sadness in her voice, “though it be a perilous gift.

The dice were rattling their merriest, and Rhoecus had just laughed in triumph at a happy throw, when through the open window of the room there hummed a yellow bee.