Flower Pieces and other poems By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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XII. GORSE.
Bloom of the Common, common bloom, gold honey,
Sweet like a healthy life in every season,
Nature still grows thee, Gorse, regales her bees on
Stretches of English land, wide, windy, sunny,
Free from the fetters of that monster, Money,
Big with delusive promise full of treason;
Harbours the wren, the furzeling, and the coney,
Feeds goose and ass there,—Soul too, lord of reason.
Sweet like a healthy life in every season,
Nature still grows thee, Gorse, regales her bees on
Stretches of English land, wide, windy, sunny,
Free from the fetters of that monster, Money,
Big with delusive promise full of treason;
Harbours the wren, the furzeling, and the coney,
Feeds goose and ass there,—Soul too, lord of reason.
Wild wealth of merry May, of dim December!
Swedish Linnæus fell upon his knees
To thank with joy the Everliving Power
(No scraps of lore forbade him to remember)
Giving such wondrous beauty to a Flower,
To Man the beauty-loving eye that sees.
Swedish Linnæus fell upon his knees
To thank with joy the Everliving Power
(No scraps of lore forbade him to remember)
Giving such wondrous beauty to a Flower,
To Man the beauty-loving eye that sees.
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