Alfred Tennyson Quotes

The Flower

Once In A Golden Hour
I Cast To Earth A Seed.
Up There Came A Flower,
The People Said, A Weed.

To And Fro They Went
Thro' My Garden-bower,
And Muttering Discontent
Cur'd Me And My Flower.

Then It Grew So Tall
It Wore A Crown Of Light,
But Thieves From O'er The Wall
Stole The Seed By Night.

Sow'd It Far And Wide
By Every Town And Tower,
Till All The People Cried,
"Splendid Is The Flower."

Read My Little Fable:
He That Runs May Read.
Most Can Raise The Flowers Now,
For All Have Got The Seed.

And Some Are Pretty Enough,
And Some Are Poor Indeed;
And Now Again The People
Call It But A Weed.

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