Love's garland

I will twine the white violet and I will twine

the delicate narcissus with myrtle buds,

and I will twine laughing lilies, and I will twine the sweet crocus,

and I will twine therewithal the crimson hyacinth,

and I will twine lovers' roses, that on balsam-curled Heliodora's temples

my garland may shed its petals over the lovelocks of her hair.