White as lilies, pure candles
(Olav) Fartein Valen
White as lilies, pure candles,
like stars, bowing unobtrusively,
from the centers of their hearts,
red-seamed, radiates the glow of affinity.
Thus the premature narcissi
bloom in rows in the garden.
One may well fancy that these good flowers know
for whom they wait, so neatly arrayed.