All-stately queens it o’er her satellites,

The yellow daffodils; Narcissus scents,

With his frankincense sweet, the keen March air,

A flower of peerless beauty.

Wall-flowers shew

From bed and border, their brown-orange blooms;

And under them lingereth a vestal pure,

The last pale primrose. All the pear-trees bend

Beneath their flower-snow; the almonds blush

With roseate bloom; the young year’s minstrel sweet—