Rose Pogonias

 
A saturated meadow,
  Sun-shaped and jewel-small,
A circle scarcely wider
  Than the trees around were tall;
Where winds were quite excluded,         5
  And the air was stifling sweet
With the breath of many flowers,—
  A temple of the heat.
 
There we bowed us in the burning,
  As the sun’s right worship is,         10
To pick where none could miss them
  A thousand orchises;
For though the grass was scattered,
  Yet every second spear
Seemed tipped with wings of color,         15
  That tinged the atmosphere.
 
We raised a simple prayer
  Before we left the spot,
That in the general mowing
  That place might be forgot;         20
Or if not all so favoured,
  Obtain such grace of hours,
That none should mow the grass there
  While so confused with flowers.


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