
The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
"Our Orders" in The Atlantic Monthly (July 1861).
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
A Sense of Wonder
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”