That I, French Rudel, choose for my device

A sunflower outspread like a sacrifice

Before its idol. See! These inexpert

And hurried fingers could not fail to hurt

The woven picture; 't is a woman's skill

Indeed; but nothing baffled me, so, ill

Or well, the work is finished. Say, men feed

On songs I sing, and therefore bask the bees

On my flower's breast as on a platform broad:

But, as the flower's concern is not for these