Independent Blossoms + 

When the spring boughs were told + 

Soon the rose will unfold + 

Herself in the bower + 

Of which she is queen, + 

Their blossoms, beguiling + 

The sad leaves, said smiling: + 

“No slaves to a flower + 

Have we ever been.” + 

Our lords are the birds. + 

And they love not in words; + 

They sing when we smile + 

And sob when we fall; + 

Her lord is the liar⁠— + 

The thief or the buyer⁠— + 

Who smells her the while + 

She lives, and that’s all. + 