Garden Bloggers' Muse Day: Morning Glory

The Morning-Glory
Florence Earle Coates
1850-1927

Was it worth while to paint so fair
Thy every leaf - to vein with faultless art
Each petal, taking the boon light and air
Of summer so to heart?

To bring thy beauty into perfect flower,
Then, like a passing fragrance or a smile,
Vanish away, beyond recovery's power -
Was it, frail bloom, worth while?

Thy silence answers: "Life was mine!"
And I, who pass without regret or grief,
Have cared the more to make my moment
fine,
Because it was so brief.

"In its first radiance I have seen
The sun! - why tarry then till comes the
night?
I go my way, content that I have been
Part of the morning light!"

Carolyn Gail at Sweet Home & Garden Chicago hosts Garden Bloggers Muse Day on the first of every month. This is my first time to participate ... thanks for inviting us to expand our poetical horizons, Carolyn!