And winged with scented sails
Of silver silk, whereon the red
Great gladioli burn;
A rainbow flag at her masthead,
A rose flag at her stern....
And perching on the point above,
Wherefrom the pennon blows,
The figure of a flying dove,
And in her beak a rose.
It is an auspicious, even a brilliant commencement. Dull and ungrateful must be the mind or temperament that refuses to acknowledge either the skill of the builder, or the perfection of the craft.