Volume 23 — LOVE'S MESSENGERS.
Reading edition
Who will tell him? Who will teach him? Have you voices, merry birds? Then be voice for me, and reach him With a thousand pleading words. Sing my secret, east and west, Till his answer be confessed! Roses, when you see him coming, Light of heart and strong of limb, Make your lover-bees stop humming; Turn your blushes round to him— Blush, dear flowers, that he may learn, How a woman's heart can burn! Wind—oh, wind—you happy rover! Oh that I were half as free— Leave your honey-bells and clover, Go and seek my love for me. Find, kiss, clasp him, make him know It is I who love him so!
Mary Ainge De Vere.