Rich is the sky where thou wert born, And gorgeous are the flowers, But yet I hope thou wilt not scorn This cold blue sky of ours. Malvern; or, The three marriages - Page 285 by Catherine Anne Hubback - 1855 Full view - About this book
...brown, No fair one could be sweeter, Young as thou art, thou wilt not frown Upon an old man's metre. Rich is the sky where thou wert born, And gorgeous are the flowers ; But yet, I trust, thou wilt not scorn This cold blue sky of ours. And though the flowers of Westmoreland Do not...