With fragrance, will grow even sweeter still

At sudden blossoming of one more rose.

But the rose, too,

Has her own secret. From the heavenly blue,

Regnant upon his throne of light, the sun

Sends her his glances; till the timid rose

Slowly, leaf after leaf, unveils to him

Her beauty; and the summer air at once

Takes to itself the soft and fragrant sigh,

Nor dreams she offered to a distant sun