Bedecked with every flower that Flora gave,—

Sweet eglantine and meek anemone,

Bright, nodding columbine and wood-star white,

Blue violets, like her eyes, and pendant gems

Of dielytra, topaz-tipped and gold,

Fragrant arbutus, and hepatica,

With thousands more. Her wreath, a coronet

Of opening rose-buds twined with lady-fern;

And over all, her bridal-veil of white,—

Some soft diaph'nous cloudlet, that mistook