"The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile."
"The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home."
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Source: Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61
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