• Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower

    Paul Verlaine: Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
Your childhood is a bower:
Let my fingers wander in the moss
Where glows the rosebud 
Let me among the clean grasses
Drink the drops of dew
Which sprinkle the tender flower
    Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”