Besides a sweetly smelling, blooming flower.”

So I lay down my pen and gazed at her.

BYRON

The thought of Byron wakens in my mind

The vision of a solitary tree

Titanic and contorted on a cliff

That overhangs a wild abysmal sea.

Its mighty root, a maze of tentacles,

Has put a lasting clutch-hold on the rock,

Much like the miser’s fingers on his gold.