Comes Mignonette,—my Mignonette.

The wild rose is a conjurer,

It charms the heavy years away,

Unshoes my feet and bids them stray

O'er playgrounds where our temples were.

To some pale star I owe a debt

For harboring the soul of her

With whom I learned love's alphabet—

With Mignonette, my Mignonette.

"While the Evil Days come not"