<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Flower O' the Year</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">The</span> laggard year is now at prime</p><p class="line">And primrose-time is daffodil-time;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where do the boys delay? What tether</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Hinders them from the heavenly weather,</p><p class="line">From violet-time and cowslip-time?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Why do they keep the house so late?</p><p class="line">The sweet o' the year is at the gate,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And hear the cuckoo calling, saying:</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Up, slug-a-bed! 'Tis time for Maying!</p><p class="line">The cuckoo calling early and late.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">They have stolen away before the dawn,</p><p class="line">No print in the May-dew on the lawn</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Betrays the way their light feet taking</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Set not the quaking grass to shaking,</p><p class="line">Running so light-foot in the dawn.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The primrose and the daffodil weather</p><p class="line">Is here, and cowslips troop together;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The lambs frolic in pastures gold,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">But since they come not it is cold.</p><p class="line">Cold the primrose and daffodil weather.</p></div></body></html> · Great War