| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The White Blossom’s off the Bog |
| | | Alfred Perceval Graves (b. 1846) |
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| THE WHITE blossom’s off the bog and the leaves are off the trees, | |
| And the singing birds have scattered across the stormy seas: | |
| And oh! ’t is winter, | |
| Wild, wild winter! | |
| With the lonesome wind sighing for ever through the trees. | 5 |
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| How green the leaves were springing! how glad the birds were singing! | |
| When I rested in the meadow with my head on Patrick’s knees! | |
| And oh! ’t was spring-time, | |
| Sweet, sweet spring-time! | |
| With the daisies all dancing before in the breeze. | 10 |
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| With the spring the fresh leaves they ’ll laugh upon the trees, | |
| And the birds they ’ll flutter back with their songs across the seas, | |
| But I ’ll never rest again with my head on Patrick’s knees; | |
| And for me’t will be winter, | |
| All the year winter, | 15 |
| With the lonesome wind sighing for ever through the trees. | |
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