Primrose for X - The Paris Review
Briefly

William Blake once wrote to a friend that he conversed with the Spiritual Sun on Primrose Hill.Today his words saying as much are carved on the stone curb atop the grassy knoll where the Druid Order has gathered for the Autumn Equinox since the poet's times, and today still do.For the Druids, the primrose wards off evil and holds the keys to heaven (in German the cowslip primrose is appropriately called Himmelschlüsselchen). For herbalists it is a sedative, pain reliever, and salve.
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