Verse and Reverse (1921)/Blue in the Garden

Blue shall be always cherished in my garden:
From the first bright blue of the squills
To the blue of Michaelmas daisies,
And of shadowed snow-drifts.

O, blue of air-depths,
Blue of quiet lakes and smoothly flowing rivers,
Infinite shifting blues of the never-resting sea,
Blue of shadows and of misty places,
Smoke-blues and rock-blues,
Blues of distant mountains,
And of the hazy rim of prairies!

O, colour of mystery,
Colour of things far off,
Colour above my reach,
Blue ever alluring and elusive,
You shall be welcome to my garden!
Renew it with your elemental spirit!
Touch me in common with everything that grows!