The last of colour in her gaudy smocks;

The ruins yonder

Show but a vestige of the flaming phlox;

The poppies on their faded glory ponder.

Here visited the vagrant humming-bird,

The nebulous darting green, the ruby-throated;

The warm fans of the butterfly here floated;

Those two nests reared the robins, and the third

Was left forlorn

Muffled in lilacs, whence the perfume stirred