By the wistariaed portico

Stealing, I go

Through gardens where the weeds are rank:

Where, here and there, in clump and bank,

Spiræas rise, whose dotted blooms

Seem clustered starlight; and the four

Syringas sweet heap, powdered o'er,

Thin flower-beakers of perfumes;

And the dead flowering-almond tree,

That once was pink as her young cheek,