• The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring;
• The rosebud's blush that leaves it as it grows
• Into the full-eyed fair unblushing rose;
• The summer clouds that visit every wing
• With fires of sunrise and of sunsetting;
• The furtive flickering streams to light re-born
• 'Mid airs new-fledged & valorous lusts of morn,
• While all the daughters of the daybreak sing:—

• These ardour loves, and memory: and when flown
• 10 All joys, and through dark forest-boughs in flight
• The wind swoops onward brandishing the light,
• Even yet the rose-tree's verdure left alone
• Will flush all ruddy when the rose is gone;
• With ditties and with dirges infinite.

Dante G. Rossetti Xmas 1879