Canto 10A Rose of Women
Book 1. Part One - England and Baroda 1883 – 1898
Now lilies blow upon the windy height,
Now flowers the pansy kissed by tender rain,
Narcissus builds his house of self-delight
And Love’s own fairest flower blooms again;
5Vainly your gems, O meadows, you recall;
One simple girl breathes sweeter than you all.
MELEAGER