1. I sent the strangest of things as a gift
The most wondrous of them for the experimenter and informant

2. With soft, green, matching roses
That please you, smelling now and seeing later

3. It came at the festival, so it was more
Wondrous than anything, though it was the last

4. The strangeness of the last compared to
When it should come is like the strangeness of the early

5. And when I covered the garden with it
With a garden within you, my praise illuminated

6. And I said to it, listen to the adornments of the noble
Of immaculate character, the elite of secrets

7. It opened from its buds and revealed
Scents that had been concealed

8. The elevated water of your praise revived it
And from your sublime morals it prospered

9. So make it abundantly welcome and let it remain powerful
Firmly established for as long as a star shines and sets