Illinois Verse/At the Mum Show
At the Mum Show
Bewildering flower! In your gorgeous tatters, A splendid mendicant,Boldly begging admiration for your beauty.
Amazing blossom! Sinking sometimes to a tiny Button of delicate tint;Often swelling into a great balloon of colorHeld to earth by its long green stem. Sumptuous! Regal!
Under the long stretches of protecting glassThe evanescent life of vivid tones and varying shadesMerges, as some great crashing chord,Into an ensemble of magnificent harmony.