
From her first flush Spring trumpets,
with full throated daffodil-gold,
vibrant welcome to her lover
with tunes which birds warble over
time and again before Summer's
whispering growth to meadows
makes every cherry tree blush
in floral shyness and each rose
stir in its unopened bud
prepared for petal-composing.
A royal affair like this owns
to changes by the hundred
and though Spring's best melodies blow
pale welcome to Ol' Sol's coming
suppressed hues win but she knows
they must lose to her King's bold
love of extravagant colour.