I am always your true knight;
I will serve you at your will;
Always ready, brave, and steady,
Sweet and cheery still.
Queen. It is well. And now shall we learn about the flowers?
First Maid of Honor. Here are what we have found—anemones, wind-flowers, saxifrages, red columbines.
Second Maid of Honor. Claytonias, beauties of spring, and violets soft and yellow.
[They throw the flowers in the Queen's lap.]
Queen. Are these the first?
Calla-Lily.
Deep in the shadow, where the pine-trees grow,
I found the sweet arbutus, it will blow
Where brown leaves lie; you push them soft away,
There, shy and pink, the darling flowerets stay.
Rosemary.
Blood-root and anemone,
These, fair Queen, my gifts to thee.