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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53619 ***
A FLOWER WEDDING
DESCRIBED·BY
TWO WALLFLOWERS
DECORATED·BY
WALTER·CRANE
CASSELL·&·COMPANY·1905
[Illustration]
A·FLOWER·WEDDING
Yes, flower bells rang right merry that day,
When there was a marriage of flowers, they say.
[Illustration]
Young LAD’S LOVE had courted Miss Meadow·Sweet,
And the two soon agreed at the Altar to meet.
[Illustration]
A LILY white robe was worn by the Bride,
And SWEET WILLIAM, the Groom, drest in red, at her side.
[Illustration]
Miss VIOLET, PRIMROSE, and gay MARYGOLD,
With their LADIES’ FINGERS her train did uphold.
[Illustration]
In LADYSMOCKS, Bridesmaids, FORGET·ME·NOT blue,
With their sashes all tied in LOVE·KNOT·TRUE.
[Illustration]
The Bride’s Mother follows with loving EYEBRIGHT,
All in WINTER GREEN and fine FURZE bedight.
[Illustration]
Whilst her father looked young, though with OLD·MAN’S·BEARD.
[Illustration]
(Was a DANDE·LION in youth I have heard.)
[Illustration]
The troth was plighted for woe or for weal,
And the lines attested by SOLOMON’S SEAL:
[Illustration]
The BACHELOR’S BUTTON was cast aside,
[Illustration]
And the throng that witnessed was LONDON’S PRIDE:
[Illustration]
There was GOOD KING HENRY, a tall JONQUIL,
[Illustration]
Like NARCISSUS himself by the waters still;
[Illustration]
There were LORDS & LADIES to grace the dance,
[Illustration]
And ROSE MARY, and—
[Illustration]
ROSE·LA·FRANCE:
[Illustration]
With his GOLDEN ROD
[Illustration]
the SWEET SULTAN came;
[Illustration]
Lastly, CREEPING JENNY, an elderly dame
[Illustration]
To order the feast—there was LING, and HARTSTONGUE,
[Illustration]
And GOOSEFOOT with SAGE, the HOUSE·LEEK among
[Illustration]
Very SWEET PEAS, & GOOD CHERRY PIE,
Such a feast as an Alderman could not deny!
[Illustration]
In lovely KING·CUPS there was CHAMOMILE TEA
[Illustration]
And the fortune in gifts was a wonder to see!
A new PENNY-ROYAL, A fine GOLDEN FEATHER;
[Illustration]
A pair of HORSE-CHESTNUTS,
[Illustration]
a JACOB’S LADDER,
[Illustration]
VENUS’S·LOOKING·GLASS,
[Illustration]
a fine ARROW-HEAD
Discovered long since in the river’s bed;
[Illustration]
Garments of FLAX,
[Illustration]
and a LADY’S CUSHION;
[Illustration]
HOSE·IN·HOSE, LADY’S SLIPPERS to put on,
[Illustration]
BUTTERCUPS gold, and a PITCHER-PLANT
Nay, everything that a house could want.
[Illustration]
In VENUS’S-FLY-TRAP the pair drove away,
[Illustration]
“SPEEDWELL, and be happy,” their friends gaily say;
[Illustration]
But alack! what a hubbub when one chanced to find
The Bride’s only BOX was there left behind!
[Illustration]
The WILD-THYME they had, and the fuss that was made
Kept the guests in a rout thro’ the DEADLY NIGHT SHADE.
[Illustration]
But the CLOCKS ticked apace to the ope of DAIS-Y
SNOWFLAKES were fast falling when all said good-bye,
[Illustration]
With regrets for “that box,”—yet they need not to stint,
For the Bridegroom was rich, he’d a post at the MINT
[Illustration]
[Illustration: THE HONEYMOON
FINIS]
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Flower Wedding, by Walter Crane
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53619 ***
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