YOU give me gifts with a gracious hand
A red carnation, a yellow primrose
More saffron pale than the pale sea sand
When Venus first from the ocean’s rim rose,
Redder than tulips that stand in trim rows
In Mynheer’s garden in Dutchman’s land,
Or Persian roses by soft airs fanned
Where cypresses tremble in sombre slim rows,
By a poet’s palace in Samarcand.
For your fair sake I shall love those flowers,
The yellow primrose, the red carnation :
Ruby and amber, these blooms of ours
I shall hold them ever in veneration,
As a charm for luck, as an incantation,
For light in darkness, for sun in showers,
For hope of blue when a black sky lowers.
I pledge you, dear, and I make libation
To youth’s lost glory and love’s lost hours !
(Justin H. McCarthy)
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