And this to the White Violet?

Pale Beauty went out ’neath a wintry sky

From a nook where the gorse and the holly grew by,

And silently traversed the snow-covered earth

In search of a sign of floriferous birth.

And this to an Early Primrose?

Pretty flow’ret, sweet and fair,

Pensive, weeping, withering there;

Storms are raging, winds are high,

I fear thy beauty soon will die.