• O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Flower-de-luce and Three Books of Song...”, p.10