SONGS AND CHORDS OP THE FLOWERS. 247 
Ey’n the terror, poison, 
Hath its plea for blooming; 
Life it gives to reverent lips, though death to 
the presuming. 
And oh ! our sweet soul-taker. 
That thief, the honey-maker. 
What a house hath he, by the thymy glen ! 
In his talking rooms 
How the feasting fumes, 
Till the gold cups overflow to the mouths of men ! 
The butterflies come aping 
Those fine thieves of ours, 
And flutter round our rifled tops, like tickled 
flowers with flowers. 
See those tops, how beauteous ! 
What fair service duteous 
Round some idol waits, as on their lord the Nine 
Elfin court ’twould seem ; 
And taught, perchance, that dream 
Which the old Greek mountain dreamt, upon 
nights divine 
