FLOWERS IN VERSE 



BY GABRIELLE MULLINER 



HAVE read and reread with infinite pleasure Gabrielle 

 MuUiner's "Flowers in Verse" recognizing in these 

 poems the abiding love which is the birth-right of 

 every woman for flowers and trees and all nature; — 

 the cultivated, the wild, the faithful roadside flower 

 friend the stone wreathed with the vine that we 

 touched with loving childish hands in years gone by. 



Gabrielle MuUiner has given us in her poems a new meaning 

 for the growing things; — ponder on the beauty of these lines: 



WISTARIA 



When young Dionysos, the God of the Vine, 

 First taught the Greek people the use of the wine, 

 A wee Japanese joined the Satyrs and men 

 Who followed the Youth on his journeyings then. 



The beauty of clusters of ripe purple grapes, 

 The nectar kissed cups in their small perfect shapes 

 Enraptured the Jap so soulful and sad 

 For the beautiful fruit and the color it had. 



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