WILD HYACINTH

Delicate tangle of beauty that flows from the bowl of the May-green wood

Leading the lingering heart out of love in a transport to tremulous tears,

When the West wind runs a luminous wave through your bells and your sensitive spears

It is earth I behold a light with a heavenly mood:

Blue fires, blue floods, that shimmer and swim in a haze in the heart of the wood.

I have seen innocent beauty that made my spirit to laugh aloud

As joy danced over my soul like light that travels a fine-rippled sea;

I have seen awfullest beauty that struck into dumbness the senses of me