30 THE DELIGHTS OF GARDENS 



Stately hollyhocks, row on row, 



Golden sunflowers all aglow, 



Scarlet poppies and larkspurs blue, 



Asters of every shade and hue ; 



And over the wall like a trail of fire 



The red nasturtium climbs higher and higher. 



JULIA C. R. DORR. 



AN UNDEFILED PARADISE 



(Prom " The Sensitive Plant ") 



THE snowdrop, and then the violet, 



Arose from the ground with warm rain wet, 



And their breath was mixed with fresh odour, sent 



From the turf, like the voice and the instrument. 



Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, 

 And narcissi, the fairest among them all, 

 Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, 

 Till they die of their own dear loveliness ; 



And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, 

 Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, 

 That the light of its tremulous bells is seen 

 Through their pavilions of tender green ; 



And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, 

 Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew 

 Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, 

 It was felt like an odour within the sense ; 



