Rose, reddened, and its seething breast

Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world.

—Browning.


Oh, such a commotion under the ground

When March called, “Ho, there! ho!”

Such spreading of rootlets far and wide,

Such whispering to and fro.

And “Are you ready?” the Snowdrop asked;

“’Tis time to start, you know.”