The Flower

New Life
New Life
Paulette Cushman

The Flower

verse ii

                         Who would have thought my shrivel’d heart
              Could have recover’d greennesse? It was gone
                         Quite under ground; as flowers depart
              To see their mother-root, when they have blown;
                                                Where they together
                                                All the hard weather,
                          Dead to the world, keep house unknown.

George Herbert (1593-1633)