Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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HYDRANGEAS
What mean these old hydrangeas lingering,For sake of their old blueness, though they droop?
—Breathing their element from crystal spring
A little shrine of shells? And, if one stoop,
One sees them as the garner of an elf.
Ice-plants fresh-nipt, of bloom too small for seeing!
What stealthy mines, what sporting with itself
Of some delicious and most vibrant being!
Who set, as a dear thief, this branching coral
Dipping its shade? Almost the touch we trace;
Yet with each lovely littering hint we quarrel,
Provoked more lonesome by its recent grace:
And the old blue hydrangeas, ball on ball,
Pattern their vacant flower-heads on the wall.
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