Bouquet

I would pluck for you an iris, but the flower would always pale; next to the one around your pupil what flower's beauty could prevail? I would fetch for you a lily, but it would prove a useless feat: you're already just as lovely, and as innocent and sweet I could gather up some daisies, but what good could it bring? for in you blooms such happiness, and an Eternal Spring. But not too many hardships have yet befallen you, I suppose so just as much for thorns as flower, I will give to you a rose. Mark Burton Sunday January 29th, 2006, 5:21 A.M.