The Bird of Time/Songs of the Springtime/Golden Cassia
Golden Cassia
O brilliant blossoms that strew my way,
You are only woodland flowers they say.
But, I sometimes think that perchance you are
Fragments of some new-fallen star;
Or golden lamps for a fairy shrine,
Or golden pitchers for fairy wine.
Perchance you are, O frail and sweet!
Bright anklet-bells from the wild spring's feet,
Or the gleaming tears that some fair bride shed
Remembering her lost maidenhead.
But now, in the memoried dusk you seem
The glimmering ghosts of a bygone dream.