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In which I go overboard and compare my muse to many flowers. |
| I have it! My lady is a lily fair, With her white throat and dark hair Or is she a cherry blossom, delicate yet wild? No, no, such would say a Japanese poet-child. I'd liken her to a rose, but Burns already did that My lady is like a sweetly blossoming lilac! In fact, She's subtler, more like a lilac-scented handkerchief Than that dolorous and heavily perfumed flower of grief Yet indeed, is there not a sadness in her eyes? My lady's rue, Herb of grace, whose scent Magdalene loved in her sorrow And yet I think her more of a violet, ever true To her charmingly girlish fancy and maidenly virtues From Ophelia's bouquet, the forsaken daisy Resembles my lady: unhappy love...but that's just me My lady is the whole garden of flowers, With spring's blossoms hanging in bowers. |