Reached from the leafy drift

On a glistening April day.

Wild Honey.

Arbutus’ gift, in very truth, I deem

These gathered, golden songs that keep the gleam

Of early sunlight through the awakened wood;

The vernal spirits of the sisterhood

There cloistered, rosy-cool and vestal-shy,

Are in these lucent cells enforced to lie;

Here bides the baffling fragrance, here the charm.