WHO would be planted chooseth not the soil, Or here or there, Or loam or peat, Wherein he best may grow, And bring forth guerdon of the planter's toil -- The lily is most fair, But says not: -- "I will only blow Upon a southern land"; the cedar makes no coil What rock shall owe The springs that wash his feet; The crocus cannot arbitrate the foil That for its purple radiance is most meet -- Lord, even so I ask one prayer, The which if it be granted, It skills not where Thou plantest me, only I would be planted. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIMERICK by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD THE SMACK IN SCHOOL by WILLIAM PITT PALMER WHEN YOU ARE OLD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THOREAU'S FLUTE by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT CARMEN SYLVA by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS CHARACTERS: WILLIAM ENFIELD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |