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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 24485 ***
+
+
+
+
+A FLORAL FANTASY IN AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN
+
+BY WALTER CRANE
+
+NEW YORK & LONDON HARPER AND BROTHERS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
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+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A FLORAL FANTASY IN AN OLD ENGLISH GARDEN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+  SET FORTH IN
+  VERSES & COLOURED
+  DESIGNS
+  BY
+  WALTER CRANE
+
+  LONDON: AT THE
+  HOUSE OF HARPER
+  AND BROTHERS:
+  1899
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE OLD ENGLISH GARDEN
+
+A FLORAL PHANTASY
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  In an old world garden dreaming,
+  Where the flowers had human names,
+  Methought, in fantastic seeming,
+  They disported as squires and dames.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Of old in Rosamond's Bower,
+  With it's peacock hedges of yew,
+  One could never find the flower
+  Unless one was given the clue;
+  So take the key of the wicket,
+  Who would follow my fancy free,
+  By formal knot and clipt thicket,
+  And smooth greensward so fair to see
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  And while Time his scythe is whetting,
+  Ere the dew from the grass has gone,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The Four Seasons' flight forgetting,
+  As they dance round the dial stone;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  With a leaf from an old English book,
+  A Jonquil will serve for a pen.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Let us note from the green arbour's nook,
+  Flowers masking like women and men.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  FIRST in VENUS'S LOOKING GLASS,
+  You may see where LOVE LIES BLEEDING,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  While PRETTY MAIDS all of them pass
+  With careless hearts quite unheeding.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Next, a knight with his flaming targe
+  See the DENT-DE-LION so bold
+  With his feathery crest at large,
+  On a field of the cloth of gold.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Simple honesty shows in vain
+  A fashion few seek to robe in,
+  While the poor SHEPHERD'S-PURSE is ta'en
+  By rascally RAGGED-ROBIN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  COLTSFOOT
+  and
+  LARKSPUR
+
+  SPEEDWELL
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  In the race of the flowers that's run due,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  As the HARTSTONGUE pants at the well
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  And the HOUNDSTONGUE laps the SUNDEW.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Here's VENUS'-COMBE for MAIDENHAIR:
+  While KING-CUPS drink BELLA-DONNA,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Glad in purple and gold so fair,
+  Though the DEADLY NIGHTSHADE'S upon her.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Behold LONDON PRIDE robed & crowned,
+  Ushered in by the GOLDEN ROD,
+  While a floral crowd press around,
+  Just to win from her crest a nod.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The FOXGLOVES are already on.
+  Not only in pairs but dozens;
+  They've come out to see all the fun,
+  With sisters and aunts and cousins.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The STITCHWORK looked up with a sigh
+  At BATCHELOR'S BUTTONS unsewn:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Single Daisies were not in her eye,
+  For the grass was just newly mown.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The HORSE-TAIL, 'scaped from WOLFE'S CLAW,
+  Rides off with a LADIES' LAGES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The FRIAR'S-COWL hides a doctor of law,
+  And the BISHOP'S-WEED covers his grace's
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The SNAPDRAGON opened his jaw,
+  But, at sight of Scotch THISTLE, turned pale:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  He'd too many points of the law
+  For a dragon without a scale.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Little JENNY-CREEPER lay low,
+  Till happy thoughts made her gladder;
+  How to rise in the world she'd know,
+  So she climbed up JACOB'S LADDER
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  SWEET WILLIAM with MARYGOLD
+  Seek HEARTSEASE in the close box-border.
+  Where, starched in their ruff's stiff fold,
+  DUTCH DAHLIAS prim, keep order.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  NARCISSUS bends over the brook,
+  Intent upon DAFFA-DOWN-DILLY:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  While EYEBRIGHT observes from her nook,
+  And wonders he could be so silly.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  A LANCE FOR A LAD 'gainst KING'S SPEAR.
+  When the BUGLE sounds for the play
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  A LADIES MANTLE flaunting there
+  Is the banner that leads the fray.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  KNIGHT'S SPUR to the LADIES BOWER
+  To seek for the LADIES SLIPPER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  'Twas lost in the wood in a summer shower
+  When the CLOWN'S WORT tried to trip her.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  TOAD-FLAX is spun for BUTTER-AND-EGGS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  On a LADIES' CUSHION sits THRIFT
+  She never wastes, or steals, or begs,
+  But she can't give poor RAGWORT a lift.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  QUEEN OF THE MEADS is MEADOWSWEET,
+  In the realm of grasses wide:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  But not in all her court you meet
+  The turbaned TURK'S HEAD in his pride.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Fair BETHLEHEM' STAR shineth bright,
+  In a lowly place, as of old,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  And through the green gloom glows the light
+  Of ST. JOHN'S-WORT--a nimbus of gold.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  But the hours of the sun swift glide,
+  And the flowers with them are speeding.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Though LOVE-IN-A-MIST may hide.
+  When Time's in the garden weeding.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  There's TRAVELLER'S JOY
+  To entwine,
+  At our journey's end for greeting,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  We can talk over SOPS-IN-WINE,
+  And drink to our next merry meeting.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  PRINTED
+  BY
+  EDMUND
+  EVANS
+
+  BOUND
+  BY
+  LEIGHTON
+  SON &
+  HODGE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: A FLORAL FANTASY]
+
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 24485 ***