The flowers—the haunted flowers of May!

From Childhood’s Land they take their way,

They bloom but for that flower-child’s sake—

What wondrous things to me they say!

With them it lives, their little day;

With them, each new-born year, ’twill wake;

The flowers—the haunted flowers of May,

What wondrous things to me they say!


[THE CLOCK OF THE YEAR]